eleventy-plugin-webmentions

A plugin for eleventy to fetch and filter webmentions from Webmention.io.

Install

Available on npm.

npm install --save-dev eleventy-plugin-webmentions

Usage

In your Eleventy config file (probably .eleventy.js), load the plugin module and use .addPlugin to add it to Eleventy with an options object that defines the domain and the Webmention.io token. Like this:

const Webmentions = require("eleventy-plugin-webmentions");

module.exports = function (eleventyConfig) {
  eleventyConfig.addPlugin(Webmentions, {
    domain: "lukeb.co.uk",
    token: "ABC123XYZ987",
  });
};

REMEMBER: You’re only allowed one module.exports in your configuration file, so make sure you only copy the require and the .addPlugin lines above! (Including the configuration options)

The plugin then adds 2 global data objects. One is called webmentionsLastFetched and is a Date object with the date that the plugin last fetched webmentions, and the other is called webmentions and is an array of webmention objects that look similar to this:

{
  type: 'entry',
  author: {
    type: 'card',
    name: 'Zach Leatherman',
    photo: 'https://webmention.io/avatar/pbs.twimg.com/d9711a9ad30ae05a761e4a728883bcbdd852cbf7d41437925b0afc47a8589795.jpg',
    url: 'https://twitter.com/zachleat'
  },
  url: 'https://twitter.com/zachleat/status/1524800520208142337',
  published: '2022-05-12T17:15:48+00:00',
  'wm-received': '2022-05-13T00:05:16Z',
  'wm-id': 1397424,
  'wm-source': 'https://brid.gy/comment/twitter/CodeFoodPixels/1524795680966991874/1524800520208142337',
  'wm-target': 'https://lukeb.co.uk/blog/2022/01/17/pixelated-rounded-corners-with-css-clip-path/',
  content: {
    html: 'The step-by-step here was/is incredible detailed!\n' +
      '<a class="u-mention" href="http://lukeb.co.uk/"></a>\n' +
      '<a class="u-mention" href="https://twitter.com/CodeFoodPixels"></a>',
    text: 'The step-by-step here was/is incredible detailed!',
    value: 'The step-by-step here was/is incredible detailed! <a></a> <a></a>'
  },
  'in-reply-to': 'https://lukeb.co.uk/blog/2022/01/17/pixelated-rounded-corners-with-css-clip-path/',
  'wm-property': 'in-reply-to',
  'wm-private': false
}

It also adds 2 filters:

• webmentionsForPage will return the webmentions for that page, in the structure defined by the mentionTypes option.
• webmentionCountForPage will return the number of webmentions for a page, filtered by the types used in the mentionTypes option.

Here is an example of using the filters in nunjucks:

{# Get the webmentions for the current page #}
{%- set currentPostMentions = webmentions | webmentionsForPage -%}

{# Get the webmentions for a specific page #}
{%- set postMentions = webmentions | webmentionsForPage(post.url) -%}

{# Get the webmention count for the current page #}
{%- set currentPostMentionCount = webmentions | webmentionCountForPage -%}

{# Get the webmention count for a page #}
{%- set postMentionCount = webmentions | webmentionCountForPage(post.url) -%}

Configuration

Below are all the options that can be passed to the plugin:

domain

Required

undefined

token

Required

undefined

cacheDirectory

./_webmentioncache

cacheTime

3600

truncate

true

maxContentLength

280

truncationMarker

…

htmlContent

true

useCanonicalTwitterUrls

true

Whether or not to convert Twitter URLs using tweetback-canonical

pageAliases

{}

An object keyed by page path, with the values either being a string of a page that is an alias of that page (e.g an old page that has been redirected) or an array of strings.

mentionTypes

{
  likes: ["like-of"],
  reposts: ["repost-of"],
  comments: [
    "mention-of",
    "in-reply-to"
  ]
}

A single layer object with groupings and types that should be returned for that grouping. The object can have any keys you wish (doesn't have to be likes, reposts and comments like the default) but each value should be an array of webmention types.You can find a list of possible types here

sanitizeOptions

{
  allowedTags: ["b", "i", "em", "strong", "a", "p"],
  allowedAttributes: {
    a: ["href"],
  },
}

A set of options passed to sanitize-html. You can find a full list of available options here You can find a full list of available options here

sortFunction

(a, b) => {
  new Date(a.published || a["wm-received"]) -
  new Date(b.published || b["wm-received"])

Defaults

All of the defaults are exposed on the defaults property of the module, so they can be used in your config if necessary.

Here is an example of extending the sanitizeOptions object:

const Webmentions = require("eleventy-plugin-webmentions");

module.exports = function (eleventyConfig) {
  eleventyConfig.addPlugin(Webmentions, {
    domain: "lukeb.co.uk",
    token: "ABC123XYZ987",
    sanitizeOptions: {
      ...Webmentions.defaults.sanitizeOptions,
      allowedTags: [
        ...Webmentions.defaults.sanitizeOptions.allowedTags,
        "iframe",
        "marquee",
      ],
      disallowedTagsMode: "escape",
    },
  });
};