How to add social sharing buttons in Django template?

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I googled and searched similar questions on Stackoverflow, but couldn't make it due to lack of details. I know how to get the current url {{ request.build_absolute_uri }} but I don't know how to use this to share the content in different social apps?

Did you try plugins like this one? https://pypi.org/project/django-social-widgets/ — Pitto, Jul 01 '20 at 17:33
I tried, but it lacks detail, I get errors while trying to impliment it — Mir Stephen, Jul 01 '20 at 17:37
I added `{% social_widget_render "twitter/share_button.html" href="http://www.twitter.com" username="BillGates" %}` in template, but getting this error `Invalid block tag on line 29: 'social_widget_render', expected 'endblock'. Did you forget to register or load this tag?` — Mir Stephen, Jul 01 '20 at 17:43
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35054230/django-did-you-forget-to-register-or-load-this-tag — Pitto, Jul 01 '20 at 18:56
https://github.com/creafz/django-social-widgets/tree/master/example_project — Pitto, Jul 01 '20 at 20:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 02 '20 at 10:35

It took me a while to figure out how to use django-social-widgets and here are possible Errors you may encounter and their solutions:

Python Django custom template tags register.assignment_tag not working

AttributeError: 'Library' object has no attribute 'assignment_tag'

Solution:

rename assignment_tag to simple_tag. Since, former is deprecated and simple_tag is used instead.

Error: TypeError context must be a dict rather than Context

try:
    t = loader.get_template(template)
    return t.render(Context(kwargs))
except TemplateDoesNotExist:
    return ''

replace above code with:

try:
    t = loader.get_template(template)
    return t.render(kwargs)   # here

How to add social sharing buttons in Django template?

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