Sharefeed Entry Tool

A silly little Chrome extension I created to more easily create Sharefeed entries while I am on the web.

When you click the moffsoft icon, a popup will show up with all of the possible fields, with some or even most of them auto-populated with data from the page. Clicking "generate" will generate the JSON code in a field you can easily copy and paste from.

This is just a tool I made for myself, but if you want to use it for your own implementation of the Sharefeed... I mean....... I guess?

Supported Sites

You can technically use this extension on any site, as it will always automatically fill in the URL and date accessed fields for you. However, I've built in additional autofill support for certain websites. When you visit one of these sites, a badge will appear on the moffsoft icon to indicate that additional autofill is available.

• Forgejo instances (except codeberg for now ;3;): Title and author fields are autofilled from metadata. Currently, only git.eleboog.com triggers the supported site badge, but other Forgejo instances should work too.
• GitHub: Title and author fields are autofilled from scraping the page.
• Medium: Title, author, and date published fields are autofilled from the handy NewsArticle JSON-LD schema included on every page.
• Substack: Title, author, and date published fields are autofilled form the handy NewsArticle JSON-LD schema included on every page. The supported site badge may not show for custom domains (i.e. not a *.substack.com url), but autofill should still work.
• Youtube: Title, author, and date published fields are autofilled from either the watch7-content metadata or the VideoObject JSON-LD schema.

WARNING: All data will be cleared when you close the extension's popup. If you are really proud of a note and want to come back to it later... save it somewhere else I guess?

Wait, what is this even for?

I have a page on my site called the sharefeed where I share links to things I think are interesting. To make the implementation of this slightly easier on myself, I've stored all the links in a JSON file where each entry is a single object in the following format:

url: string // The URL of the linked page.
title: string // The title of the entry. Usually analogous to the title of the linked page or article.
author: string? // The author of the linked page.
publishedDate: Date? // The date in which the linked page was **originally published**.
accessedDate: Date // The date in which the linked page was **accessed by me** (i.e. the date of this entry itself).
note: string // A message to be attached to this link, usually detailing why I decided to share it.