Many of the social bookmarking sites have apis that offer a wide variety of options for posting, searching, and other combination of actions. Maybe you don’t want to delve into the api, maybe you don’t want to deal with user verification information, or maybe for some reason it just is not working. Well there is a way to pass all of these sites simple url strings that will achieve the basic posting information and these strings are often used for blog bookmarking icons like the ones below (go ahead and click all of them at the bottom of this page and show some love). The following are some of the options available for a handful of bookmarking/sharing sites in the form of a url string.
Twitter –
Simple one option url to post status message:
http://twitter.com/home?
status=Great+post+on+social+bookmarking+http://electricpineapple.net/?p=96+%23electricpineapple
Basic options for most sites include the url, title and additional information (notes, description, etc). Urls may work without encoding but for best results everything should be url encoded.
Delicious -
http://delicious.com/save?
url=http://electricpineapple.net/?p=96&
title=Bookmark%20%27em%20Danno&
notes=Check out this awesome post
Digg -
http://digg.com/submit?
url=http://electricpineapple.net/?p=96&
title=Bookmark%20%27em%20Danno&
bodytext=Great post on social bookmarking&
media=news&
topic=Programming
Media options for digg are news, video or image. Topics are a fixed list of items. Digg had good documentation for this feature.
Facebook -
http://www.facebook.com/share.php?
u=http://electricpineapple.net/?p=96&
t=Bookmark%20%27em%20Danno
LinkedIn -
http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?
mini=true&
url=http%3A%2F%2Felectricpineapple.net%2F%3Fp%3D96&
title=Bookmark%20%27em%20Danno&
source=Electric+Pineapple&
summary=Options%20available%20for%20a%20handful%20of%20bookmarking%2F
sharing%20sites%20in%20the%20form%20of%20a%20url%20string
The mini parameter is required to be true. LinkedIn also was well documented.
Reddit -
http://www.reddit.com/submit?
url=http%3A%2F%2Felectricpineapple.net%2F%3Fp%3D3&
title=Bookmark%20%27em%20Danno
Google Bookmarks -
http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?
op=edit&
bkmk=http%3A%2F%2Felectricpineapple.net%2F%3Fp%3D96&
title=Bookmark%20%27em%20Danno&
labels=Social%20Bookmarking&
annotation=Options%20available%20for%20a%20handful%20of%20bookmarking%2F
sharing%20sites%20in%20the%20form%20of%20a%20url%20string
The op parameter is required for submitting. Labels and annotation are additional information fields.
Myspace -
http://www.myspace.com/Modules/PostTo/Pages/?
u=http%3A%2F%2Felectricpineapple.net%2F%3Fp%3D96&
t=Bookmark%20%27em%20Danno
Slashdot -
http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?
title=Bookmark%20%27em%20Danno&
url=http%3A%2F%2Felectricpineapple.net%2F%3Fp%3D96
Stumbleupon -
http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?
url=http%3A%2F%2Felectricpineapple.net%2F%3Fp%3D96&
title=Bookmark%20%27em%20Danno
Newsvine -
http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?
u=http%3A%2F%2Felectricpineapple.net%2F%3Fp%3D96&
h=Bookmark%20%27em%20Danno
Technorati -
http://technorati.com/faves?
add=http%3A%2F%2Felectricpineapple.net%2F%3Fp%3D96
This is by far a complete list, please add your own favorite sites in the comments.
