Ability to share drawings within the app via a link

The design

• New share button (the final position to be determined)
• When the button is pressed:
• A pop up appears with the preview of the image and one button in the bottom that says Click to generate and following text caption: Click to generate will upload the scene to http://json.excalidraw.com.
• When Click to generate is pressed there should be a POST request with the JSON of the scene to https://json.excalidraw.com/api/v1/post/ and read back hash from the response. Read more: https://json.excalidraw.com.
• Once the response is ready, the Click to generate disappears and instead there is an input box with the sharable URL: https://excalidraw.com?json= cf441c7b5846d0d234c411538b703079 with an option to copy to clipboard.
• When user enters the URL with a json argument (https://excalidraw.com?json= cf441c7b5846d0d234c411538b703079) we should load the drawing with a given json from: https://json.excalidraw.com/api/v1/cf441c7b5846d0d234c411538b703079.json

Comments

• Maybe instead of separate button, having the sharable link when exporting as image.
• In the future we might support other providers like Google Drive, Dropbox, etc…

Screenshot

Notes

For any suggestions or changes to the backend (https://json.excalidraw.com) file issues directly in that repo https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw-json/issues

[lipis]

I updated the description to reflect that.

[dwelle]

@AlanBreck nevertheless, our policy so far is to comply with such requests. So if you send me the id (the part of the #json string that’s before the comma (https://excalidraw.com/#json=id,key), we will remove the link for you.