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webmen

A small module to send WebMentions. Should work in both Node and the browser, although you might want to include polyfills for Array.from, Promise and fetch for the latter.

This project also includes TypeScript type definitions.

Installation

npm install webmen --save

Usage

import { webmention } from 'webmen';

webmention('https://webmention.rocks/test/1', 'http://poop.bike')
.then((success) => console.log('Did the target accept the WebMention?', success))
.catch((error) => console.error('Something went wrong sending a WebMention:', error););

API

`webmention(target: string, source: string): Promise<boolean>`

Notify target that source links to it. You will usually use this method.

This should be called when the link to target is added, and again every time source is updated, or if/when it eventually is deleted.

Parameter: `target`

The web page that is mentioned by source. webmen will attempt to find a reference to the WebMention endpoint there, to which the actual WebMention will be sent.

Parameter: `source`

The web page that mentions target; it should actually include a link to target to be a valid WebMention, or have included one at some point of time in the past.

Returns

A Promise that is either rejected, e.g. when the network is down, or resolved with either true (target accepted the WebMention) or false (e.g. target does not support WebMentions).

`discover(target: string): Promise<string | null>`

Given a target that is linked to, finds that page's associated WebMention endpoint, if any.

Parameter: `target`

The web page that is mentioned. If the page supports WebMentions, it will include a reference to an endpoint (e.g. <link rel="webmention" href="https://endpoint.example">) that a WebMention should be sent to.

Returns

A Promise that is either rejected, e.g. when the network is down, or resolved. If it is resolved, it will either return the endpoint referred to in the target page, or null if it did not refer to an endpoint.