# webmentiond

Webmention receiver server that stores incoming mentions in SQLite and lets the site owner approve or reject them.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/webmentiond/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- home: https://webmentiond.org
- repository: https://github.com/zerok/webmentiond
- docs: https://webmentiond.org/getting-started/
- subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/webmentiond/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Horst Gutmann
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2023
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: community
- hosting: binary
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: sqlite
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: docker image zerok/webmentiond

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: GPL-3.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2025-12-01

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 73
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 6
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://webmentiond.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/zerok/webmentiond (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://webmentiond.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://zerokspot.com/ (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainerType: https://zerokspot.com/ (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/zerok/webmentiond (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://webmentiond.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://webmentiond.org/install-from-source/ (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://webmentiond.org/configuration/ (read 2026-11-03)
- databases: https://webmentiond.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- adminUi: https://webmentiond.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://webmentiond.org/install-from-source/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://webmentiond.org/install-from-source/ (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/zerok/webmentiond (read 2026-11-03)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zerok/webmentiond/main/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/zerok/webmentiond/releases (read 2026-11-03)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/zerok/webmentiond/releases (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/zerok/webmentiond/releases/tags/v1.0.0 (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/zerok/webmentiond (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/zerok/webmentiond/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

webmentiond is a Go server that receives webmentions, stores them in a SQLite database and offers a UI for approving or rejecting them. The site links to the server's receive endpoint from the head of its pages, and a widget script shows the approved mentions on a page, as the [getting-started guide](https://webmentiond.org/getting-started/) describes. The server runs from a Docker image, which the install page names as the default way to run it, or from a binary built from source.

The admin UI signs in with an e-mail link sent through an SMTP server, and the addresses allowed to sign in are set when the server starts. Approval can be automated for sources whose URL matches a pattern in the [policies](https://webmentiond.org/policies/) table; policies cannot be configured through the UI yet.

## Worth knowing

The server needs an SMTP account to send the sign-in e-mail, and write access to the SQLite file and the folder that holds it. A source build needs Go and Node. The repository's Dockerfile says it is no longer maintained, and the image is built by a script in the repository instead.

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