mgiuca / web-share

Web API proposal for sharing data from a web page

Web Share API

Web Share is a Web platform API for sharing text, URLs and images to an arbitrary destination of the user's choice:

navigator.share({title: 'Example Page', url: 'https://example.com'});

Implementation status

• The Level 1 API (images/files not supported) is shipping in:
  • Google Chrome 61 on Android.
  • Safari 66.
• The Level 2 API is currently being implemented in Chrome.

Links

• Explainer document, a high-level overview of the proposal.
• Specification - Level 1.
• Specification - Level 2.
• Native integration survey, for platform-specific matters.
• Web platform tests, for automatic and manual testing against an implementation.

This is a product of the Ballista project, which aims to explore website-to-website and website-to-native interoperability.

Licensing and contributions

See LICENSE and CONTRIBUTING.