# carrot/share-button

:warning: :warning: Currently Unmaintained :warning: :warning: - fast, beautiful, and painless social shares:

Repository: https://github.com/carrot/share-button
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/share-button
Homepage: http://sharebutton.co/
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2016-06-17T15:39:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4837, "days_push": 3729, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2928, forks 360 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:30.510958+00:00)

## What it is
A lightweight JavaScript library that provides a fast, customizable social share button for websites, replacing slow official social network widgets with a single compact button. It is explicitly unmaintained, with the last release in 2016.

## Use cases
- add social share buttons to a website
- replace slow Facebook and Twitter share widgets
- customize the look of social share buttons with CSS
- share page links to multiple social networks from one button
- reduce page load time from third-party share scripts

## When to choose
- you need a dependency-free, lightweight share button and accept no future updates
- you want full CSS control over share button styling

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained library with bug fixes
- you need support for newer social networks or modern frameworks
- you require a license with clear terms (license is non-standard/unclear)

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, social-media
- platform: browser
- tags: social-sharing, share-button, unmaintained, vanilla-javascript, nodejs

## Member repositories
- carrot/share-button (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:30.510958+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:33:27.853664+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/carrot/share-button (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:30.510958+00:00, sha 71cd94a42922)
  - homepage: http://sharebutton.co/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:48:59.422213+00:00, sha 061a05fd7b8a)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/share-button (fetched 2026-08-29T09:48:59.425526+00:00, sha 046430770ae6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.