Bridgy - Connect Your Website to Social Media
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Bridgy (brid.gy) connects your web site to social media as part of the IndieWeb (indieweb.org). This extension provides backfeed for Facebook: it pulls back comments and likes from those sites to your own web site. See the Bridgy docs for more background and details.
Your web site needs to support IndieAuth (indieauth.net). When you install the extension, it opens a Bridgy page for you to IndieAuth into your site. After that, it runs in the background, forwarding Facebook responses to Bridgy to send back to your site. You can see status info and poke it on the extension settings page.
Bridgy originally used Facebook's API to do this, but they later restricted that API. Fortunately you can still log into and use them legitimately in your browser, so this extension lets you send your own data to Bridgy, automatically.
Join the IndieWeb chat at indieweb.org/discuss to ask questions or give us feedback!
What's new:
0.7.0, 2024-01-03
- Remove Instgram. Their anti-bot defenses have led them to suspend a couple people's accounts for using this extension, so we're disabling it out of an abundance of caution. Sorry for the bad news.
0.6.1, 2022-09-18
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Bridgy requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Bridgy is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.
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