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

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

License

MIT © Vincent Tunru

API

Index

Functions

• discover
• send
• webmention

Functions

discover

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

Defined in src/discover.ts:13

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

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
target	string	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: Promise<string | null>

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.

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send

▸ send(endpoint: string, source: string, target: string): Promise<Response>

Defined in src/send.ts:12

Given an endpoint (see discover), send it a WebMention.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
endpoint	string	An endpoint that is set up to receive WebMentions for a given target.
source	string	The page that links to target.
target	string	A page whose WebMention endpoint is endpoint, and which is linked to from source.

Returns: Promise<Response>

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webmention

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

Defined in index.ts:15

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.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
source	string	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.
target	string	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.

Returns: Promise<boolean>

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).