Create a sphinx-socialposts extension?

[choldgraf]

I recently wrote a blog post about some functionality in my blog that lets you embed social media posts into Sphinx sites. A few folks reached out and asked if this could be made into a pip-installable extension. In particular, @12rambau and @kolibril13.

So I'm curious if others would find it useful to have an extension like this in executablebooks/. Would @kolibril13 and/or @12rambau be interested in co-maintaining it? If so I'd be happy to quickly create it and release so that we can iterate. @rowanc1 maybe this is a case where we can experiment with standardizing functionality of an extension across both the python + the javascript parsers?¹

Footnotes

1. And a future thought: maybe a directive like ```{socialpost} could be replaced one day by an embed functionality (e.g. ![](tweet:https://twitter.com/choldgraf/status/1625883290593787904). ↩

[12rambau]

I have a cookiecutter for sphinx extention, if people agree I can make set it in no time and hand-over the repository either here or in sphinx-contrib

[12rambau]

I just invited you to the repository. it's very clumsy at this stage but we can discuss there some design descisions.

[choldgraf]

woot! if we want to add this to executablebooks, you might have to be the one to do it. In that case, I might have to give you temporary admin status so that you can do it. I also saw you noted sphinx-contrib as well. As long as they are willing to give out admin rights on the repository that we'd add there, I'm happy to do that too, either works for me 👍

[12rambau]

I'm already part of sphinx-contrib so I can add anything already. the idea is yours to beggin with so I prefer to let you decide where it should live. anyway, let's wait until there is something working before finding it a home

[choldgraf]

I don't have strong opinions - if sphinx-contrib is a healthy place and will allow us to have a neutral place to host the code, let's just go with that! @kolibril13 do you have opinions?

[kolibril13]

sphinx-contrib sounds great!