By Mike Sances on

[moved this from http://groups.drupal.org/node/5517]

I think it would be great if Drupal had a "Share on " feature like Facebook's share.php. Many sites have a "Share on Facebook" button, but there is also a link you can bookmark so you can share any page you visit on the web.

Drupal's aggregator module already has the ability to blog any individual news item that you subscribe to on your Drupal site by clicking "Blog It". But how would a similar button work that you can use on external sites, and also bookmark in your browser?

Any thoughts or work already being done on this?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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teradome’s picture

teradome commented

http://drupal.org/project/service_links

That will get you started. No Facebook support, but I'm sure it would be easy to add.
The problem is that there's nothing consistent about these services and the addition of new sites happens faster than code can be worked on, refined to handle to raw number of options, and released. You'd probably be better off incorporating the widget from Add This! (addthis.com) as they are in the business of keeping all these sites up to date, and you don't have much of a bonus of hosting your own solution unless you are obsessive about tracking those clicks locally.

Mike Sances’s picture

Mike Sances commented

Thanks, but I think I'm going for something different here, correct me if I'm wrong. Service Links adds a group of buttons to your Drupal pages to send your node content to external sites, e.g. Facebook.

What I'm looking for is something that does the reverse: that sends content from external sites into new Drupal nodes, kind of like the "Blog It" feature in the aggregator module, except Blog It pulls from an RSS feed already on the Drupal site.