Social Linker - Visual Studio Code Edition

Taking the code from the social linker and taking it to an extension.

Why

I initially created the social linker to provide a way to create trackable link for Cloud Advocates. As we are using WebTrends to identify events, we are tracking with the WT.mc_id= code.

It has become clear that tracking links in our blog posts on multiple platforms has become a pain as multiple links need to be tracked.

What's a WT.mc_id code

That code however is a template. WT.mc_id=event-channel-user.

The template is split with the character - is has 3 components: the event, the channel, and the user.

Eg:

• social-twitter-marouill would mean a link shared on twitter for a generic social interaction by the person marouill.
• social-reddit-marouill would mean a link shared on reddit for a generic social interaction by the person marouill.
• build2019-twitter-marouill would mean a link shared on twitter for the BUILD 2019 event by the person marouill.

This tool

This tool will not focus on social media. As most tweets/reddit posts/hackernews posts aren't written down in markdown before sending, this tool will focus on the blog post side of the equation.

People are writing content for dev.to, their own personal blogs or simply using markdown as a great tool to copy/paste from.

The goal

The goal of this tool is to make it as easy as possible to massively tag all links that targets Microsoft properties (*.microsoft.com, etc.) and add/replace the tracking code automatically.

Requirements

Requirements can be found in the issues and will be tagged appropriately.

Contributors