amp-social-share

Overview

The amp-social-share component displays a social share button for various social platform providers.

Examples

Example: Basic social share button

The share button guesses some defaults for you for some pre-configured providers. It assumes that the current document canonical url is the URL you want to share and the page title is the text you want to share.

<amp-social-share type="twitter"></amp-social-share>

Example: Passing parameters

When you want to pass parameters to the share endpoint, you can specify data-param-<attribute> that will be appended to the share endpoint.

<amp-social-share type="linkedin" width="60" height="44"
  data-param-text="Hello world"
  data-param-url="https://example.com/">
</amp-social-share>

Linkedin is one of the pre-configured providers, so you do not need to provide the data-share-endpoint attribute.

Attributes

type (required)

Selects a provider type. This is required for both pre-configured and non-configured providers.

data-target

Specifies the target in which to open the target. The default is _blank for all cases other than email/SMS on iOS, in which case the target is set to _top.

Please note that we only suggest using this override for email.

data-share-endpoint

This attribute is required for non-configured providers.

Some popular providers have pre-configured share endpoints. For details, see the Pre-configured Providers section. For non-configured providers, you'll need to specify the share endpoint.

data-param-*

All data-param-* prefixed attributes are turned into URL parameters and passed to the share endpoint.

Pre-configured providers

The amp-social-share component provides some pre-configured providers that know their sharing endpoints as well as some default parameters.

Non-configured providers

In addition to pre-configured providers, you can use non-configured providers by specifying additional attributes in the amp-social-share component.

Example: Creating a share button for a non-configured provider

The following example creates a share button through Facebook Messenger by setting the data-share-endpoint attribute to the correct endpoint for the Facebook Messenger custom protocol.

<amp-social-share type="facebookmessenger"
    data-share-endpoint="fb-messenger://share"
    data-param-text="Check out this article: TITLE - CANONICAL_URL">
</amp-social-share>

As these providers are not pre-configured, you'll need to create the appropriate button image and styles for the provider.

Styles

Default Styles

By default, amp-social-share includes some popular pre-configured providers. Buttons for these providers are styled with the provider's official color and logo. The default width is 60px, and the default height is 44px.

Custom Styles

Sometimes you want to provide your own style. You can simply override the provided styles like the following:

amp-social-share[type="twitter"] {
  background: red;
  background-image: url(datauri:svg/myownsvgicon);
}

Variable Substitution

You can use global AMP variables substitution in the <amp-social-share> element. In the example below, TITLE is substituted with the page title and CANONICAL_URL with the document's canonical URL.

<amp-social-share type="whatsapp"
    data-param-text="Check out this article: TITLE - CANONICAL_URL">
</amp-social-share>

Validation

See amp-social-share rules in the AMP validator specification.