> Cross-instance share page for Mastodon
[toot] allows you to share stuff on Mastodon, cross-instance. Just put in your
post text and the instance URL and click ‘Toot!’
And if you open this page with `text` URL parameter, it will be auto-inserted
in the text field. The same goes for the `instance` URL parameter. This can be
used to build custom share buttons for Mastodon:
```html
Share on Mastodon
```
The instance URL can be saved in your `localStorage` to be automatically
appended later — handy!
## Hosting
### One-click Vercel deploy
For now, toot is a tad bit vendor-locked to run on
[Vercel](https://vercel.com/). To deploy it yourself, you can use the following
button:
[](https://vercel.com/new/clone?repository-url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fkytta%2Ftoot)
### Host it yourself
Self-hosting toot outside of Vercel requires some extra setup:
1. Make sure you have got Node.js v12 or later as well as pnpm installed
2. Build the static part of toot:
```sh
pnpm install # to install dependencies
pnpm run build # to build the website
```
3. Run the backend server for the form:
```sh
node api/toot.js
```
or if you want to run the process in the background:
```sh
pm2 start api/toot.js --watch --ignore-watch="node_modules"
```
> You can find a summary for pm2 at: https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/quick-start/
4. Set up webserver
1. Apache
```apacheconf
DocumentRoot "path_to_toot/public"
ProxyPass "/api/toot" "http://localhost:8000/"
```
2. Nginx
```nginxconf
root path_to_toot/public;
index.html;
location /api/toot {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8000/;
}
```
3. Caddy
```caddy
root * path_to_toot/public;
try_files index.html
handle_path /api/toot {
reverse_proxy localhost:8000
}
```
## See also
**[📯 Shareon](https://shareon.js.org)**
(lightweight, stylish, and ethical share buttons) uses [toot] under the hood!
## Licence
Copyright © 2020–2022 [Nikita Karamov](https://www.kytta.dev/)
Licenced under the [GNU Affero General Public License, version 3](https://spdx.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0-only.html)
The ‘toot’ logo is based on Mastodon’s ‘Simple’ logo, licensed under [AGPL-3.0](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html).
The repo banner includes Mastodon’s ‘Full’ logo, licensed under [AGPL-3.0](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html).
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This project is hosted on Codeberg:
[toot]: https://toot.kytta.dev/