Webmentions

[miklb]

Support retrieving and displaying webmentions. Netlify offers a build plugin for automatically sending webmentions.

[miklb]

Retrieving, storing and displaying webmentions for a "static site" was a pain while running Jekyll.

The easiest way would be to use webmention.io or or @voxpelli's webmention endpoint and use Eleventy Fetch in a _data/webmentions.js file to retrieve the webmentions directly from the hosted site.

@simonw recently announced a json write endpoint for Datasette which set my wheels in motion.

What if, you put a webmention endpoint in front of the Datasette instance and stored them there. Voxpelli's is in front of a PostgresSQL db so it could be used as a blueprint.

Until then, could probably pull them from a hosted endpoint and write it to my Datasette db and use the JSON API for data retrieval.

I'm thinking in addition to webmentions, markdown entries are also piped to the database for faceted full site search. And resilience.

[miklb]

Currently using web mention.io and Eleventy Fetch. Closing and will open specific tickets related.