post2html is tool to embed social media posts into your website by generating a copy & paste-able code snippet.

Simply paste the post link into post2html. The tool will use the post's data to generate the necessary HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to recreate that post on your website.

"Wait, can't I just use the embed feature provided by the social media platform?"

Good question! Most social media platforms have a way to embed posts on their platform to other websites. But post2html has some advantages.

First and foremost, speed 🚀

Lot of times, the embeddings provided by social media platforms work in a two-step process:

1. Fetch the data from their servers.
2. Use that data to reconstruct the post on your website.

Both of these steps contribute to a noticeable lag. post2html's approach is to instead do the majority of the work ahead of time, so that the post is displayed much more quickly.

See it for yourself in the benchmark below. Click the button to start the benchmark, and keep a close look on the timer measuring how long it takes for the post to load.

Granted, the difference is not enormous. But in many environments, like a slow mobile internet or websites with multiple embeddings, the difference can add up and make a big impact on user experience.

"Hold on, where are the likes and comments?"

Unfortunately, we can't just have the nice things. The tradeoff is that post2html doesn't support likes, replies, or any other realtime data. But the idea here is that in most cases, you're probably don't need it anyways, since there are seldom the main focus of a post (unless you really care about ratios and whatnot).

The upside though is that it helps keep the post look clean and minimal. And that's not it - post2html has few more tricks up its sleeve.

Responsive Design

Posts generated by post2html aren't carbon copies of the original. They are designed to be responsive, meaning they can adapt to the size of the screen they are on.

Optionally, you can display the images as a carousel, so each image is larger and easier to see.

You can also z👀m images

Click on the image to see it fill the whole post. Click again to close.

Long posts work too

Embed posts that are longer than 280 characters (Some manual labor required)