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30 August 2019

Custom Site for Share

Add Your Favorite Site To Share

This tutorial will explain you the steps to add your favorite website to the Share extension. We assume that you have successfully installed the Share Tools extension. If not, please install it from this link.
If you have installed it successfully, you can notice its icon on the toolbar as shown in the following screenshot:
To add your website, follow these steps:
  • Click on the extension icon, which should open its pop-up panel as shown above.
  • Now, click on the last (gear or wheel) icon.
share-tools-add-site
  • This should launch the options panel of the extension, as shown in the following screenshot:
share tools options
  • From this options panel, you can set two options for the extension: change the default opening behaviour and add a custom website.
  • To add a new website or service, you must provide a valid template in the input box. You can find many valid templates on this page. Detailed list is available on this link.
  • For example, if you want to add Skype, you need to copy the line # 29 and paste in the input box. This would be:
https://web.skype.com/share?url={url}
share-tools-custom-template
  • The extension supports only url and title parameters, so remove any other parameter present, like text in the above example.
  • After pasting the code, save the settings. Now, this added site would be available with the Share extension. 

With love.. Anil

29 August 2019

SHARE. Simple and Straight Forward

I have been looking at so many different ways by which we can share the websites that we visit daily.
How to make sharing as simple as possible and one that involves just 2 clicks?

That is when I stumbled upon an idea to create an extension or modify an existing extension and enhancing its features.
Being the first of my browser apps, it is indeed a challenge to learn how to do it. Technology? Its ready. Coding expertise? ready.
The only missing thing is the infrastructure and means to publish the idea, however simple it may be.

Thats when I tried my hand at the first chrome web app: SHARE.
Below is the link for the same:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/share/imfnjaolefblebhdphcenbeihpljinkn

Since this is the version 0.0.1, expect many more updates and feature additions as and when needed and based on feedback.

With love.. Anil