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Web Share API

Category

Device

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 89)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Web Share is an API for sharing data (text, URLs, images) from the web to an app of the user's choosing.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://w3c.github.io/web-share/
• Firefox: In development — https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/27
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Strongly positive
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/620973

Docs: https://web.dev/web-share/

Samples: https://w3c.github.io/web-share/demos/share.html

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