Feature Request: Ability to share wishlist through various platforms such as facebook, twitter, email and so on

[rjtbansal]

As our current wishlist is dependent on localstorage of the browser, directly adding social share buttons only works for individual products. We need a way to be able to share the entire wishlist through various social media platforms and email.

Thanks @dlerm for this!

[rjtbansal]

Hi @dlerm , Any ideas into this? I was thinking if there was a way to somehow get a link with product ids on current wishlist page? That way we could probably share links across.

[dlerm]

@rjtbansal I was able to set it up so you could create a wishlist URL with query params that held the wishlist product handles (Example: /pages/wislist?w=handle1,handle2...). The logic for fetching and displaying the products can read that and render properly using those query params.

The issue I am running into is that the social sharing services/endpoints strip out any url query params on share links rendering it useless. The services also forcefully casts all urls to full lowercase. I am working on passing the product handles in the url without query params to be formatted something like this: /pages/wishlist/handle1+handle2+handle3.... (data in the url structure instead of query params).

In both cases the url gets really long if the wishlist has lots of items in it so I am also working on a way to transform the product data into a unique ID/Hash (hopefully ~6-20 characters) that I can use - and then when a user lands on the page I can convert that ID back into product data to be populated on the page. This has proven to be a rather difficult task since hashing is generally a one-way transform. I'm looking into base64 encoding but the but I'll need to find a way to work around the uppercase/lowercase casting from the sharing service.