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Use the Web Share API to share content to 200+ supported destinations.

100% free to use, reliable, fast. Used by millions every day.

Get More Traffic

Enable your visitors to share articles, comments, purchases or other activities from your site to their friends on multiple social networks. You've already got customers that love your product or service. Profit from helping them tell the world about it. The Share API is free to use, and helps you grow your bottom line and traffic without growing your marketing budget.

Share API Documentation

Shareaholic provides social APIs to connect your site or application to each of the major social networks for sharing. If you can’t use the Shareaholic JavaScript SDK, you can link to these API endpoints directly. With these APIs you can customize the social sharing experience for your users to match the look and feel of your site or application.

Designed for Ease

All API methods are accessible via simple HTTP calls. We have optimized for ease of implementation, so you won’t see anything complicated. Most implementations of this API take less than 15 minutes to setup. Simply hit the provided URLs with their respective parameters, and you're done.

Getting Started: Authentication

All API endpoints require authentication credentials to be supplied as query arguments. To get started, you'll need a free Shareaholic user account and Site ID. Signup for an account and then add your site to get your Site ID. The Site ID is your API Key.

Example:

...&apikey=8943b7fd64cd8b1770ff5affa9a9437b&...

Note: the apikey used in this document is intended for use as an example only.

Share Content with over 200+ (and growing!) Destination Services

Let your users share content from any website, desktop app, mobile app, etc to any supported destination service.

Endpoint: https://www.shareaholic.com/api/share/?v=1

Parameter	Description	Required	Example
v	API Version	Required	v=1
apitype	API Type	Required	apitype=1 (1=Redirect, 2=Pingback, 3=1x1 pixel)
apikey	API Key	Required	apikey=8943b7fd64cd8b1770ff5affa9a9437b
service	Destination Service	Required	service=7 (lookup codes)
link	Link	Required	link=http://www.yoursite.com
title	Page Title	Optional	title=My%20Awesome%20Webpage
notes	Notes	Optional	notes=I%20love%20this!
short_link	Shortened Link	Optional	short_link=http://bit.ly/1OTIqm
shortener	URL Shortener	Optional	shortener=shrlc (tinyurl|bitly|jmp|google|shrlc|none)
shortener_key	URL Shortener Credentials	Optional	shortener_key=shareaholic|R_83932e4c5d02d1f94aea0f40fbc557ec
template	Template	Optional	template=Reading: ${title}
tags	Tags	Optional	tags=programming,python,howto
source	Source	Optional	source=shareaholic

Working Example (posting a link to Facebook):

<a href="https://www.shareaholic.com/api/share/?v=1&apitype=1&apikey=8943b7fd64cd8b1770ff5affa9a9437b&service=5&title=The%20Hottest%20VC%20No%20One%20Has%20Ever%20Heard%20Of&link=http://www.robgo.org/post/376467064/the-hottest-vc-no-one-has-ever-heard-of&shortener=google&source=Shareaholic" target="_blank">Post to Facebook</a>

Give it a try: Post to Facebook

Notes:

• link, short_link, title, and notes parameters should be URL-encoded, plain text, no HTML, UTF-8. You can not include a parameter value in the request that has '&', '?', '#', ' ', or other reserved parameters without first encoding it.
• Parameters should not contain spaces: any parameter with spaces will be rejected. All spaces should be either percent encoded (%20) or plus encoded (+). Note that tabs, newlines and trailing spaces are all indications of errors. Please remember to strip leading and trailing whitespace from any user input before posting.
• Parameters must have a slash between the domain and the path component. For example, http://example.com?query=parameter is invalid, and instead should be formatted as http://example.com/?query=parameter
• link parameter value should be a complete URL and not a shortened link (like a bit.ly short link). You should always pass shortened links (ex. you may want to do this for Twitter) through the short_link parameter.

Link Tracking & URL Shorteners

Shareaholic can automatically shorten the link for you using a supported shortening service that you specify.

...&shortener=google...

We currently support the following shorteners/parameter values:

Shortener	Description
google
tinyurl
bitly
jmp
shrlc	Default
none	Do not shorten link

You can further customize this option with your own bit.ly or j.mp account if you'd like by passing the shortener_key parameter. If you pass this, the API will use your key to shorten the link.

...&shortener=bitly&shortener_key=shareaholic|R_83932e4c5d02d1f94aea0f40fbc557ec&...

shortener_key format: username|apikey (i.e. delimited by "|"). For su.pr, you just need to pass your apikey.

Note that this setting will only shorten links for services where it is appropriate (i.e. sharing to Twitter, but not bookmarking in Google Bookmarks or Delicious).

Templates i.e. customize your Tweets

By specifying the template API parameter, you can customize the default post format for services that support templates. Specifying a template is completely optional. The following services currently support templates:

• Twitter

The Share API supports a few different tokens in a template — you can use all, some, or none of them:

Template Token	Description
${title}	Title of the page
${link}	Link to the page
${short_link}	Short link that you pass to the Share API
${notes}	Any text; usually a very short summary of the link or user selected text

Sample template for Twitter:

...&template=Reading: ${title} (${short_link}) via @Shareaholic %23api %23devtools&...

Result:

Give it a try: Tweet this!

Tags (describe your content)

Use the optional tags API parameter to further describe the content/URL being shared. Amongst many other benefits, you will get back more useful analytics tracking reports as a result.

tags takes a set of comma-separated values (CSV) with no trailing comma. Commas inside tag values MUST be URL encoded (as %2C) and commas separating tags MUST NOT be encoded. For example, the tags "python", "conference" and "Boston, MA" should be passed as:

...&tags=python,conference,boston%2Cma&...

You can pass in as many tags as you'd like, but we've found 3-5 to be most optimal.

Destination Service Codes

Popular Services:

Service	Service Code ID
Facebook	5
Twitter	7
Pinterest	309
LinkedIn	88
Google Bookmarks	74
Google Mail	52
PrintFriendly	236
Yahoo! Mail	54

All Services:

Service	Service Code ID
AIM	50
Allvoices	63
Amazon (CA) Wish List	271
Amazon (DE) Wish List	272
Amazon (FR) Wish List	273
Amazon (JP) Wish List	274
Amazon (UK) Wish List	270
Amazon (US) Wish List	200
AOL Mail	55
Arto	194
Ask.com MyStuff	91
AttentionMeter	221
Backflip	97
Balatarin	241
Bebo	196
BibSonomy	25
Bit.ly	208
Bitty Browser	108
Blinklist	48
Blogger Post	219
BlogMarks	27
BobrDobr	266
Bookmarks.fr	35
Box.net	240
BuddyMarks	90
Buzzster	1
Care2 News	104
CiteULike	13
Clicky.me	248
Connotea	96
Current	80
DailyMe	237
Delicious	2
Design Float	106
Digg	3
Digg Bar	224
Diglog	72
diHITT	244
Diigo	24
Dwellicious	251
DZone	102
Email This	313
Evernote	191
Expression	186
Facebook	5
Fark	62
Faves	49
Favoriten	242
Feedmarker Bookmarks	69
Folkd	197
Followup.cc	235
FriendFeed	43
FunP	17
Furl	11
Gabbr	183
Global Grind	89
Google Apps Mail	260
Google Bookmarks	74
Google Mail	52
Google Plus +1	304
Google Sidewiki	275
Google Translate	252
Google Wave	262
Gravee	95
Hatena	246
HelloTxt	81
Hemidemi	16
HootSuite	261
Hotmail	53
Hub.tm	234
Hugg	71
Hyves	105
Identi.ca	205
Imera Brazil	65
Instapaper	18
Is.gd	228
iZeby	263
j.mp	249
Jamespot	64
Jumptags	14
Khabbr	31
Kledy	30
LinkaGoGo	67
Linkatopia	85
LinkedIn	88
LiveJournal	79
Ma.gnolia	23
Mail	201
Maple	93
Memori.ru	269
MenŽame	33
MindBodyGreen	68
Mister-Wong	6
Mixx	4
Moemesto	268
Mozillaca	231
MSDN	184
Multiply	42
MyLinkVault	98
MySpace	39
Netlog	8
Netvibes Share	195
Netvouz	21
NewsTrust	199
NewsVine	41
Ning	264
NowPublic	75
NUjij	238
Oknotizie	243
Oneview	84
Orkut	247
PhoneFavs	19
Pinboard.in	256
Ping	45
Pinterest	309
Plaxo Pulse	44
Plurk	218
Posterous	210
PrintFriendly	236
Propeller	77
Protopage Bookmarks	47
Pusha	59
Read It Later	239
ReadWriteWeb	250
Reddit	40
Segnalo	58
Shoutwire	12
Simpy	86
SiteJot	99
Slashdot	61
SmakNews	206
Soup.io	217
Sphere	107
Sphinn	100
SpringPad	265
Spurl	82
Skype	989
Squidoo	46
StartAid	29
Strands	190
Streakr	215
StumbleUpon	38
Stumpedia	192
Su.pr	232
Svejo	245
Symbaloo Feeds	103
Taggly	26
Tagza	187
Tailrank	28
Techmeme	204
TechNet	185
Technorati Favorites	10
Technotizie	36
TinyURL	223
Tipd	188
Truemors	203
Tumblr	78
Tweetie	226
Twiddla	66
Twine	216
Twitter	7
TypePad Post	220
unalog	70
Viadeo	92
VodPod	198
Webnews	57
Windows Live Favorites	37
Windows Live Spaces	15
Wink	22
Wists	94
WordPress	230
Xerpi	20
Yahoo Bookmarks	76
Yahoo Buzz	73
Yahoo Buzz India	254
Yahoo Messenger	87
Yahoo! Mail	54
Yammer	253
Yample	83
Yandex	267
YC Hacker News	202
YiGG	56
Yoolink	34
YouMob	60

Feedback

If you believe you have found a bug, or you’d like to request additional functionality, or you release something using this API, we’d love to hear from you.