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[Question] Not sure how the "Share" function works (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/hermit

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Hi, maybe I'm trying to do something that Hermit cannot do, but I was wondering how the "Share" function works. Is it to share links from other apps into a Hermit app?

To be more specific, I was wondering if I could "share" a YouTube URL and parse it so that it redirect some parameters like watch?v= or the videoID after youtu.be/ into another website, for example https://piped.video/

Thanks!

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[–] chimbori 2 points 1 year ago

Hi, sharing to Hermit allows for features like:

opening links from another browser in Hermit (e.g. if you are reading a Lemmy link in Chrome, you can share a link from Chrome to Hermit, and it will open in the Lemmy Lite App.
You can also pass entire URLs to other sites, e.g. set up a Facebook Share URL so the site can accept the URL.

If piped.video can accept a URL as part of a GET URL, you can use the %u parameter to use it.