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:

<a
  href="https://toot.kytta.dev/?text=Hello%20world!&instance=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.xyz"
>
  Share on Mastodon
</a>

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. To deploy it yourself, you can use the following button:

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:

   pnpm install    # to install dependencies
   pnpm run build  # to build the website
   

3. Run the backend server for the form:

   node api/toot.js
   

   or if you want to run the process in the background:

   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 (lightweight, stylish, and ethical share buttons) uses toot under the hood!

Licence

Copyright © 2020–2022 Nikita Karamov
Licenced under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3

The ‘toot’ logo is based on Mastodon’s ‘Simple’ logo, licensed under AGPL-3.0.

The repo banner includes Mastodon’s ‘Full’ logo, licensed under AGPL-3.0.

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This project is hosted on Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/kytta/toot