Private social share API

Question

Is there any private social share API?

Requirements are:

• Available as PHP or JavaScript library
• Well supported
• Shares on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest

What's NOT needed:

• Heavy-weight scripts which clutter DOM
• Any intermediate websites involved
• Support for over 9000 services

Basically, it should just combine native APIs and reflect any changes in them quickly.

As I experienced AddThis, ShareThis, Shareaholic all require too much JavaScript, include many unwanted things in DOM and do all sharing via their servers.

Answer 1

Currently the best option I found is sharrre.com.

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It supports sharing on:

• Facebook,
• Twitter,
• Google Plus,
• Pinterest,
• LinkedIn,
• Delicious,
• Digg,
• StumbleUpon.

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Here is HTML to create a Tweet button:

<div id="twitter"></div>

You can pass data attributes and script will pick them up for you:

<div id="twitter" data-text="Yummy!" data-url="http://pinterest.com/deegong/steak/"></div>

For me it's very straightforward and convenient way, as I can generate data attributes dynamically on server and pass them to Javascript very easy.

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The javascript (depends on jQuery) looks as follows:

$('#twitter').sharrre({
    share: {
        twitter: true
    },
    template: 'Tweet [{total}]',
    enableHover: false,
    enableTracking: true,
    buttons: { 
        twitter: {
            via: 'ruchevits'
        }
    },
    click: function(api, options){
        api.simulateClick();
        api.openPopup('twitter');
    }
});

Options are well documented here: http://sharrre.com/#documentation

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The script will bind an onClick to #twitter container and place the following inside:

Tweet [0]

That was actually the expected behaviour, when I tried things myself without even reading documentation. Really pleased that there's no any weird output.

Here is what you get onClick in a popup, resized to fit content:

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The script is just about 14kb (minified addthis_widget.js is roughly 7kb, but it doesn't include any sharing calls itself).

And finally, it is updated regularly (last update - 10 days ago), so you can check Github for any updated third-party URLs.

I sincerely recommend this plugin to anyone who likes "transparent" lightweight code.

Personal THANK YOU! to Julienh on Github for the great job!

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EDIT:

Took me about 30 minutes to make these metro buttons fully working. :)