> Cross-instance share page for Mastodon [toot] allows you to share stuff on Mastodon, cross-instance. Just put in your post text and the instance URL and click ‘Toot!’ And if you open this page with `text` URL parameter, it will be auto-inserted in the text field. The same goes for the `instance` URL parameter. This can be used to build custom share buttons for Mastodon: ```html Share on Mastodon ``` The instance URL can be saved in your `localStorage` to be automatically appended later — handy! ## Hosting ### One-click Vercel deploy For now, toot is a tad bit vendor-locked to run on [Vercel](https://vercel.com/). To deploy it yourself, you can use the following button: [](https://vercel.com/new/clone?repository-url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fkytta%2Ftoot) ### Host it yourself Self-hosting toot outside of Vercel requires some extra setup: 1. Make sure you have got Node.js v12 or later as well as pnpm installed 2. Build the static part of toot: ```sh pnpm install # to install dependencies pnpm run build # to build the website ``` 3. Run the backend server for the form: ```sh node api/toot.js ``` or if you want to run the process in the background: ```sh pm2 start api/toot.js --watch --ignore-watch="node_modules" ``` > You can find a summary for pm2 at: https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/quick-start/ 4. Set up webserver 1. Apache ``` DocumentRoot "path_to_toot/public" ProxyPass "/api/toot" "http://localhost:8000/" ``` 2. Nginx ``` root path_to_toot/public; index.html; location /api/toot { proxy_pass http://localhost:8000/; } ``` ## See also **[📯 Shareon](https://shareon.js.org)** (lightweight, stylish, and ethical share buttons) uses [toot] under the hood! ## Licence Copyright © 2020–2022 [Nikita Karamov](https://www.kytta.dev/) Licenced under the [GNU Affero General Public License, version 3](https://spdx.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0-only.html) The ‘toot’ logo is based on Mastodon’s ‘Simple’ logo, licensed under [AGPL-3.0](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html). The repo banner includes Mastodon’s ‘Full’ logo, licensed under [AGPL-3.0](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html). --- This project is hosted on Codeberg: [toot]: https://toot.kytta.dev/