Generate Social Sharing Link CLI

This is a CLI for generating URLs for sharing content on social media. If you need to add social media sharing links to your website, you can easily generate them though this simple command line tool. Currently supports:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• LinkedIn

Menu

• Generate Social Sharing Link CLI
• Menu
• How it works
• Setting Facebook App ID
• Usage
• Commands

How it works

If you have a piece of content that you want to allow users of your website to share on social media, e.g. https://towardsdatascience.com/hidden-features-of-chrome-devtools-33d9de390dc0

Step 1:

Run

$ npm install -g generate-social-sharing-link

Step 2:

• Select a social media platform
• Enter the URL of content you want to share
• Enter any supporting text (only Twitter supports this currently)

Step 3:

Generate URL: https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=This%20is%20a%20great%20article%20https%3A%2F%2Ftowardsdatascience.com%2Fhidden-features-of-chrome-devtools-33d9de390dc0

Setting Facebook App ID

In order to generate the Facebook link, you will need to create and set a Facebook App ID. to do this, follow these steps:

Step 1:

Go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps/ and click Create App. Once you've created it, copy the App ID.

Step 2:

In the command line run the following command, but replacing 12345 with the copied app ID.

Linux:

export FACEBOOK_APP_ID=12345

Windows:

set FACEBOOK_APP_ID=12345

Please note that this may not persist in your work space.

Step 3:

Test by generateing the Facebook link and looking for the app ID in the URL.

Usage

$ npm install -g generate-social-sharing-link
$ generate-social-sharing-link COMMAND
running command...
$ generate-social-sharing-link (-v|--version|version)
generate-social-sharing-link/1.2.0 darwin-x64 node-v10.19.0
$ generate-social-sharing-link --help [COMMAND]
USAGE
  $ generate-social-sharing-link COMMAND
...

Commands

• generate-social-sharing-link generate-link
• generate-social-sharing-link help [COMMAND]

generate-social-sharing-link generate-link

Generate a URL to share on social media

USAGE
  $ generate-social-sharing-link generate-link

EXAMPLE
  $ generate-social-sharing-link generate-link

See code: src/commands/generate-link.ts

generate-social-sharing-link help [COMMAND]

display help for generate-social-sharing-link

USAGE
  $ generate-social-sharing-link help [COMMAND]

ARGUMENTS
  COMMAND  command to show help for

OPTIONS
  --all  see all commands in CLI

See code: @oclif/plugin-help