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@Giorgio-Chiodi, I think @Schamper had been working on an Embed.ly plugin, but it isn't finished yet.

Giorgio Chiodi

@Albus Is it on git? Can we take a look at it?

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It doesn't look like it, however, I've only seen it mentioned by him in a single post - so unsure of the official status.

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@Schamper said:

a_5mith reminds me that I still have a half finished embed.ly plugin somewhere... Yeah I'll probably ditch that, plenty of embedding plugins by now

Not looking so hot.

a_5mith

@Albus You could just go ahead and use embed.ly if you can handle the branding. Or I don't mind looking at creating a plugin for it.

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@a_5mith, originally I was just posting to help direct @Giorgio-Chiodi, so you might want to get a response from them. Thanks anyways

Giorgio Chiodi

@Albus I think that the problem is that having so many different plugins form different developers. Makes it really hard to keep track of what's updated and what's not. The twitter embed plugin isn't working for us, for example.

a_5mith

@Giorgio-Chiodi The twitter one wasn't made by me, so if the original author doesn't keep it up to date. It's GG unfortunately. You get the same issue with Wordpress and any other platform that supports plugin development. It's just Wordpress actively tells you the pluging hasn't been updated and won't work with your version etc.

Giorgio Chiodi

@a_5mith No no, I understand. I just wish there was a way to fix it. I'm not even sure if it's the plugin or a problem with the twitter api auth

a_5mith

@Giorgio-Chiodi Try this for the twitter...

npm install nodebb-plugin-embedly

Haven't tested it with Twitter, but this should replace the need for most embedding plugins like Twitter, soundcloud etc, as it will use embedlys api to create a "card" If you prefer, I can change the syntax so it's not automatic if you like...

Something like [embed]URL[/embed] etc if you don't like the auto embed. It also works on the homepage, as it's not an iFrame.

Giorgio Chiodi

@a_5mith VERY COOL

It works! http://146.185.184.104:4567/topic/1/testsetsetet/3

you got a flattr account or something?

a_5mith

@Giorgio-Chiodi I don't, I don't fully understand how it works. I have a paypal account though if that's helpful. But you don't have to.

siffloteux

What's the status with "Offsite URL Link Posts"?

@a_5mith pluggin seems to work for Twitter and Soundcloud, do you have a list of all supported websites, does it work for Facebook?

Shouldn't this type of feature be an integral part of NodeBB?? I find it very important and I'm hoping to see it happen soonish.

TY @julian @psychobunny

a_5mith

@siffloteux said:

@a_5mith pluggin seems to work for Twitter and Soundcloud, do you have a list of all supported websites, does it work for Facebook?

(embed.ly)

Yepp.

trevor

I would be in favor of having this NOT use a 3rd party API, but instead be built in the system.

a_5mith

@trevor said:

I would be in favor of having this NOT use a 3rd party API, but instead be built in the system.

Someone was working on that. Don't know what happened. Wasn't released.

siffloteux

People are lazy, anything you can make that will simplify their lives is winner. This one feature certainly helped Social networks grow over traditionnal forums. Look kids, you can post stuff but you don't have to type anything, how cool is that?