Hugo: Cloak e-mail

[dzwiedziu-nkg]

Feature request: cloak email.

Take an email address like [email protected]. If that was to appear on one of your posts/pages, it could easily be ‘scraped’ or ‘harvested’ automatically to add that email address to a spam list of some sort. Cloaking is all about making that harder to do.

Joomla!, WordPress and other popular CMS provides feature named "cloak email". It cause replace any <a href="mailto:[email protected]">mailto:[email protected]</a> to uglified JavaScript which generate original mailto link after webpage was loaded in browser.

Proposal: implement build-in shortcode for it. It must be implemented in Go because uglify function is should not be trivial.

[konart]

Proposal: this should have fallback option (html+css) in case js in turned off (or fails to load for some reason). Something like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21421948/protect-e-mail-address-with-css-only

[shazow]

Another option is to use an inline base64 data encoded image, if it doesn't have to be linked.

[dzwiedziu-nkg]

Email address should be readable by people with disables.

[danieka]

I've started working on this feature. I'm done with the html+css variant but it is quite limited, text not selectable, no link and I assume not readable in a screen reader. I think I'll be done with a js variant the next couple of days.

[danieka]

@dzwiedziu-nkg I've submitted a PR for this. Let me know if you think the obfuscation is to simplistic.

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[martignoni]

This would still be a useful feature. What about integrating the pull request https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/pull/3935?

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[martignoni]

I still think this would be very useful :-)

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[martignoni]

Still useful IMHO. Suggesting integration of PR #3935.

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[martignoni]

Still a good way to minimize spam on a Hugo site.

[martignoni]

Just published the cloakemail shortcode as a Hugo component: https://github.com/martignoni/hugo-cloak-email. Credits goes to @danieka for the code.

This can be closed as far as I'm concerned.

[budparr]

@martignoni Thank you. You inspired me to a theme components section to the Awesome Hugo List: https://github.com/budparr/awesome-hugo

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