Django Social Share

Provides templatetags for:

• 'Tweet This'
• 'Share this on Facebook'
• 'Share on Google+'
• 'Share on LinkedIn'
• 'Share on Telegram'
• 'Share on WhatsApp'
• 'mailto://'.
• 'Save to Pinterest'
• 'Copy to Clipboard'

Plain HTML templates are provided for your convenience, but you can override them to provide your own look and feel.

Installation

$ python -m pip install django-social-share

Add the app to INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS += ['django_social_share']

You will also have to add django.template.context_processors.request to your context_processors list. This way the templatetags will use the correct scheme and hostname:

TEMPLATES=[
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [
            os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),
        ],
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
            ],
        }
    },
]

Note in most cases sharing will not work if you are using localhost or your domain is otherwise not accessible from the public internet. For testing local development, you can use a service like ngrok, and set your Site instance's domain to the hostname provided by ngrok.

Usage

First, add {% load social_share %} to your HTML template. This tag should be placed at the top of most of your HTML document and should come before any other template tag unless otherwise.

django-social-share provides two types of template tags: "snippet" tags and "context" tags.

Snippet Tags

Snippet tags returns HTML that you can just drop in your templates. This snippets are customizable, see templates .

Available Snippets Tags:

{% post_to_facebook <object_or_url> <link_text> <link_class> %}

{% post_to_gplus <object_or_url> <link_text> <link_class> %}

{% post_to_twitter <text_to_post> <object_or_url> <link_text> <link_class> %}

{% post_to_linkedin <object_or_url> <link_class> %}

{% post_to_reddit <text_to_post> <object_or_url> <link_text> <link_class> %}

{% post_to_telegram <text_to_post> <object_or_url> <link_text>  <link_class> %}

{% post_to_whatsapp <object_or_url> <link_text> <link_class> %}

{% save_to_pinterest <object_or_url>  <link_class> %}

{% add_pinterest_script %}

<text_to_post> may contain any valid Django Template code. Note that Facebook does not support this anymore.

<object_or_url> is optional (except Telegram). If you pass a django model instance, it will use its get_absolute_url method. Additionally, if you have django_bitly installed, it will use its shortUrl on Twitter.

<link_text> is also optional. It defines the text used for the a element. Defaults to 'Post to Facebook' and 'Post to Twitter'.

Example:

{% load social_share %}

{% post_to_facebook object_or_url "Post to Facebook!" %}
{% post_to_twitter "New Song: {{object.title}}. Check it out!" object_or_url "Post to Twitter" %}
{% post_to_gplus object_or_url "Post to Google+!" %}
{% post_to_linkedin object_or_url %}
{% send_email object.title "New Song: {{object.title}}. Check it out!" object_or_url "Share via email" %}
{% post_to_reddit "New Song: {{object.title}}" <object_or_url> %}
{% post_to_telegram "New Song: {{object.title}}" <object_or_url> %}
{% post_to_whatsapp object_or_url "Share via WhatsApp" %}
{% save_to_pinterest object_or_url %}
{% add_pinterest_script %} // Required for save_to_pinterest. Add to the end of body tag.

Templates

Templates for snippet tags are in:

• django_social_share/templatetags/post_to_twitter.html
• django_social_share/templatetags/post_to_facebook.html
• django_social_share/templatetags/post_to_gplus.html
• django_social_share/templatetags/send_email.html
• django_social_share/templatetags/post_to_linkedin.html
• django_social_share/templatetags/post_to_reddit.html.
• django_social_share/templatetags/post_to_telegram.html.
• django_social_share/templatetags/post_to_whatsapp.html.
• django_social_share/templatetags/save_to_pinterest.html.
• django_social_share/templatetags/pinterest_script.html.
• django_social_share/templatetags/copy_to_clipboard.html.
• django_social_share/templatetags/copy_script.html.

You can override them to suit your mileage.

Context Tags

Context Tags work by adding a variable to your template's context. This variable will containg just the URL to service's share feature, which you can use into your template as you wish.

Available Context Tags:

{% post_to_twitter_url <text_to_post> <object_or_url> %} tweet_url {% post_to_facebook_url <object_or_url> %} facebook_url {% post_to_gplus_url <object_or_url> %} gplus_url {% send_email_url <subject> <text_to_post> <object_or_url> <link_text> %} mailto_url {% post_to_reddit_url <text> <object_or_url> %} reddit_url {% post_to_telegram <text> <object_or_url> %} telegram_url {% post_to_whatsapp_url <object_or_url> %} whatsapp_url {% save_to_pinterest_url <object_or_url> %} pinterest_url {% copy_to_clipboard <object_or_url> <link_text> <link_class> %} copy_url

<text_to_post> may contain any valid Django Template code. Note that Facebook does not support this anymore.

<object_or_url> is optional (except Telegram). If you pass a django model instance, it will use its get_absolute_url method. Additionally, if you have django_bitly installed, it will use its shortUrl on Twitter.

<link_text> is also optional. It defines the text used for the a element. Defaults to 'Post to Facebook' and 'Post to Twitter'.

Example:

{% load social_share %}

{% post_to_facebook object_or_url "Post to Facebook!" %}
{% post_to_twitter "New Song: {{object.title}}. Check it out!" object_or_url "Post to Twitter" %}
{% post_to_gplus object_or_url "Post to Google+!" %}
{% post_to_linkedin object_or_url %}
{% send_email object.title "New Song: {{object.title}}. Check it out!" object_or_url "Share via email" %}
{% post_to_reddit "New Song: {{object.title}}" <object_or_url> %}
{% post_to_telegram "New Song: {{object.title}}" <object_or_url> %}
{% post_to_whatsapp object_or_url "Share via WhatsApp" %}
{% save_to_pinterest object_or_url %}
{% add_pinterest_script %} // Required for save_to_pinterest. Add to the end of body tag.
{% copy_to_clipboard object_or_url "Copy to clipboard!" %}
{% add_copy_script %} // Required for copy_to_clipboard. Add to the end of body tag.

Issues

If you have any issues, please use GitHub's issues. Please refrain from emailing the author.