2020-12-02 21:16:58 +00:00
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title: "Site Update: WebMention Support"
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date: 2020-12-02
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tags:
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- indieweb
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Recently in my [Various Updates](/blog/various-updates-2020-11-18) post I
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announced that my website had gotten
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[WebMention](https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/) support. Today I implemented
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WebMention integration into blog articles, allowing you to see where my articles
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are mentioned across the internet. This will not work with every single mention
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of my site, but if your publishing platform supports sending WebMentions, then
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you will see them show up on the next deploy of my site.
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Thanks to the work of the folks at [Bridgy](https://brid.gy/), I have been able
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to also keep track of mentions of my content across Twitter, Reddit and
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Mastodon. My WebMention service will also attempt to resolve Bridgy mention
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links to their original sources as much as it can. Hopefully this should allow
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you to post my articles as normal across those networks and have those mentions
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be recorded without having to do anything else.
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As I mentioned before, this is implemented on top of
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[mi](https://github.com/Xe/mi). mi receives mentions sent to
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`https://mi.within.website/api/webmention/accept` and will return a reference
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URL in the `Location` header. This will return JSON-formatted data about the
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mention. Here is an example:
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```console
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$ curl https://mi.within.website/api/webmention/01ERGGEG7DCKRH3R7DH4BXZ6R9 | jq
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{
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"id": "01ERGGEG7DCKRH3R7DH4BXZ6R9",
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"source_url": "https://maya.land/responses/2020/12/01/i-think-this-blog-post-might-have-been.html",
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2022-05-26 17:44:47 +00:00
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"target_url": "https://xeiaso.net/blog/toast-sandwich-recipe-2019-12-02",
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2020-12-02 21:16:58 +00:00
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"title": null
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}
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```
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This is all of the information I store about each WebMention. I am working on
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title detection (using the
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[readability](https://github.com/jangernert/readability) algorithm), however I
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am unable to run JavaScript on my scraper server. Content that is JavaScript
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only may not be able to be scraped like this.
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---
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Many thanks to [Chris Aldrich](https://boffosocko.com/2020/12/01/55781873/) for
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inspiring me to push this feature to the end. Any articles that don't have any
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WebMentions yet will link to the [WebMention
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spec](https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/).
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Be well.
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