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Thanks a lot for the explanation!

I’m already sending webmentions via Bridgy Publish. I altered your module to optionally include the publish URLs for (in my case) Twitter and Mastodon. I’ve done this in this file around that line. I’ve added a checkbox in my notes called “Post to Bridgy?”, and when that is checked I append the Bridgy publish URLs to $page->{$field} as additional URLs to process for webmentions.

The core of what I need is what you wrote here:

I wrote some more code that processes that response to get the tweet’s URL and updates the syndication link on the note.

That’s basically exactly what I’m looking for. I see if I can achieve that by myself, playing a bit around with it.

But thanks again for you reply, that clarifies a lot for me. And it’s also a bit sobering to see that apparently it’s really not that easy to automate the process. Looking around at all the #indieweb blogs and seeing all the syndicated links on notes frankly I felt quite stupid not understanding how all this folks are doing this automatically. Also one really can’t find a whole lot information around the web, which adds to the problem.

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  1. gRegor Morrill

    That’s an interesting approach to add the Bridgy Publish webmention. I’m glad it’s working well for you. My approach is still part of the template files. I just reviewed it and it’s fairly simple, so I’m comfortable sharing it. Here is a gist. Let me know if you have any … continue reading

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