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Give the app you’re building in Lovable a share button: it calls the SocialHelper API from a server function, with your API key kept in Lovable’s secrets.

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Checked against Lovable’s docs on October 10, 2026

Setup

Set it up in Lovable.

About five minutes, from key to first post.

Source: Lovable documentation ↗

  1. 1

    Create an API key

    In the SocialHelper dashboard, open Developers and create a key. It starts with sh_ and is shown once, so copy it somewhere safe.

  2. 2

    Store the key as a secret

    Turn on Lovable Cloud and add a secret named SOCIALHELPER_API_KEY under Cloud → Secrets. Lovable calls outside APIs from an Edge Function, so the key stays on the server. Never give a secret the VITE_ prefix: those values end up in the browser.

  3. 3

    Ask Lovable to build the share function

    Paste this prompt into Lovable:

    Add a “Share” button that posts the selected update to my social
accounts. Create a server-side function that sends POST
https://socialhelper.app/api/v1/posts with the header “Authorization:
Bearer ” followed by the secret SOCIALHELPER_API_KEY, and a JSON body
with “text” and “accounts”. Load the account IDs from GET
https://socialhelper.app/api/v1/accounts. Never put the API key in
client-side code.
  4. 4

    Check the function

    It should look roughly like this: the key comes from the secret, and the browser only ever talks to your function.

    // supabase/functions/share/index.ts (a Supabase Edge Function)
// Protect this function so only you, or your signed-in users, can call it.
Deno.serve(async (req) => {
  const { text, accounts } = await req.json();

  const response = await fetch("https://socialhelper.app/api/v1/posts", {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${Deno.env.get("SOCIALHELPER_API_KEY")}`,
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
      "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({ text, accounts }),
  });

  return new Response(await response.text(), {
    status: response.status,
    headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  });
});

Ship it from Lovable.

Create a free account, connect an account and send your first post in a few minutes.

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