Shared text is sometimes the URL and sometimes the Title

[asaprahul]

Hi all! I'm experiencing this on iOS, haven't tried it on android yet.

Details:

I'm using the standard share feature in apps/mobile browsers to share into my app, and I'm expecting shared data with mimetype==text/plain to be a URL but it's not always a URL. Sometimes it's the title of the page or link.

Here's an example: if I share this link from a mobile browser, sometimes the sharedData is the actual link https://open.spotify.com/episode/1KwaEJqOyWCOFZ7blWzoDR (as expected) or sometimes it's the title of the page The Joe Rogan Experience / #1635 - Katie Spotz. It happens randomly.

I tried sharing into other apps (instead of my app) and I notice that it shares two items - the title and the URL. Is it possible to capture both of those things when shared to my app? If it is not supported yet, can I hack the library to make my app capture both (in that case would really appreciate pointers in the code to where I can make the change)?

My code (exact same as in the ReadMe, no changes yet):

 useEffect(() => {
    ShareMenuReactView.data().then(({ mimeType, data }) => {
      setSharedData(data);
      setSharedMimeType(mimeType);
      console.log("Data =>", data);
      console.log("MimeType=>", mimeType);
    });
  }, []);

Thanks for the all great work with maintaining this! 😄

[asaprahul]

Here's a screen recording:

I found that the actual copied text is #1635 - Katie Spotz https://open.spotify.com/episode/1KwaEJqOyWCOFZ7blWzoDR but when shared into the app, it's only the first part #1635 - Katie Spotz

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10172332/115974784-095dc000-a514-11eb-9f1c-163fa0eef487.mov

[jonitef]

Having same issue, any fixes?

[yanggak12]

I have the same issue. 😢

[nnbrandon]

Also having this issue

[IbrahimCanKALYA]

@rahulsonwalkar this problem caused by spotify. I solved the problem with this regex and its works.

[yourText].replace(/(https?:\/\/[^\s]+)/g, (url: string) => { if (url) { // do something... } });

[eranga-akva]

having the same issue with brave browser, netflix and walmart apps

[kodie]

Having this issue with the Firefox browser on iOS. Sharing the page to my app gives me the page title instead of the URL.

[kodie]

Possibly related to #44

[kodie]

Possibly would be fixed on Android with #116 but that hasn't been merged in yet and also doesn't seem like it would fix it on iOS.