Share buttons for HTML documents

8/10/22

Add Share buttons to Quarto HTML Documents

This extension allows to add buttons to share articles on various social media platforms.

Installing

$ quarto install extension schochastics/quarto-social-share

This will install the extension under the _extensions subdirectory. If you’re using version control, you will want to check in this directory.

Using

Add the following to the yaml header of your document. You can set options to false if you don’t want to display the respective share button.

share:
  permalink: "https://mr.schochastics.net/"
  description: "awesome page"
  twitter: true
  facebook: true
  reddit: true
  stumble: true
  tumblr: true
  linkedin: true
  email: true

permalink is the url you are going to share and description and optional text.

Example

Here is the source code for a minimal example: example.qmd
A rendered version can be found here.