diff --git a/blog/webmention-support-2020-12-02.markdown b/blog/webmention-support-2020-12-02.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4b9f869 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/webmention-support-2020-12-02.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +--- +title: "Site Update: WebMention Support" +date: 2020-12-02 +tags: + - indieweb +--- + +# Site Update: WebMention Support + +Recently in my [Various Updates](/blog/various-updates-2020-11-18) post I +announced that my website had gotten +[WebMention](https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/) support. Today I implemented +WebMention integration into blog articles, allowing you to see where my articles +are mentioned across the internet. This will not work with every single mention +of my site, but if your publishing platform supports sending WebMentions, then +you will see them show up on the next deploy of my site. + +Thanks to the work of the folks at [Bridgy](https://brid.gy/), I have been able +to also keep track of mentions of my content across Twitter, Reddit and +Mastodon. My WebMention service will also attempt to resolve Bridgy mention +links to their original sources as much as it can. Hopefully this should allow +you to post my articles as normal across those networks and have those mentions +be recorded without having to do anything else. + +As I mentioned before, this is implemented on top of +[mi](https://github.com/Xe/mi). mi receives mentions sent to +`https://mi.within.website/api/webmention/accept` and will return a reference +URL in the `Location` header. This will return JSON-formatted data about the +mention. Here is an example: + +```console +$ curl https://mi.within.website/api/webmention/01ERGGEG7DCKRH3R7DH4BXZ6R9 | jq +{ + "id": "01ERGGEG7DCKRH3R7DH4BXZ6R9", + "source_url": "https://maya.land/responses/2020/12/01/i-think-this-blog-post-might-have-been.html", + "target_url": "https://christine.website/blog/toast-sandwich-recipe-2019-12-02", + "title": null +} +``` + +This is all of the information I store about each WebMention. I am working on +title detection (using the +[readability](https://github.com/jangernert/readability) algorithm), however I +am unable to run JavaScript on my scraper server. Content that is JavaScript +only may not be able to be scraped like this. + +--- + +Many thanks to [Chris Aldrich](https://boffosocko.com/2020/12/01/55781873/) for +inspiring me to push this feature to the end. Any articles that don't have any +WebMentions yet will link to the [WebMention +spec](https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/). + +Be well. diff --git a/templates/blogpost.rs.html b/templates/blogpost.rs.html index 253b6a1..dd3a9da 100644 --- a/templates/blogpost.rs.html +++ b/templates/blogpost.rs.html @@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ }
+} else { +This post was not WebMentioned yet. You could be the first!
}The art for Mara was drawn by Selicre.