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Discover rel="payment" links. #48

Open qubyte opened 6 years ago

qubyte commented 6 years ago

Prompted by #2, but since this suggestion should probably not be the primary means of determining a payment URL (favouring something explicit in package.json would be better in my opinion) I've moved it to this issue to avoid adding noise to #2.

In the wild there's a microformat to make payment URIs discoverable within a webpage. The gist is that any link or anchor with a rel="payment" contains a payment href (and ideally also a title attribute to describe it) which resolves to a means to donate. I've made a scraper for these in this module (only checks HTTPS pages by default).

The package file contains a couple of opportunities to use this. The homepage field would be useful for project-level donations, and author info which includes a URL could be used for personal donations.

Pending the outcome of #2, and if you think it's an idea worth persuing, I'd be happy to open a pull request.

feross commented 6 years ago

Cool, didn't know about this spec. I definitely think that explicit package.json is the way to go, but I'll leave this open until that's implemented to see how it goes.

qubyte commented 6 years ago

Yup, it definitely makes sense to favour explicit links.

qubyte commented 6 years ago

Argh, sorry. Creaking browser and poor aim with my clicking.

jimmywarting commented 5 years ago

should start reading links from .github/FUNDING.YML should be the the go to method of adding themself into the list instead of sending PR to add themself, easier then parsing readme rel links