Why Iframely over Embedly?

[djensen47]

The "official" embedded card solution for NodeBB appears to be Iframely.

My question is why was this chosen over Embedly?

I'm asking because after 1, yes 1 day of use, I'm at 13k hits on the API. So my monthly is looking in the ballpark of 400k API hits, which is $291/month.

It looks like Embedly has both a Javascript SDk solution $9/month and an API solution, like Iframely, for about the same price as Iframely.

Anyway, I was just wondering if I'm missing something about Iframely.

[djensen47]

Maybe because there is an open source version of their service that you can run for "free"? That might work.

[PitaJ]

Yes, you can self-host iframely.

https://iframely.com/docs/host

[baris]

Also there is nothing preventing someone to build a embedly plugin

[djensen47]

@baris Yeah, I know.

[djensen47]

@PitaJ Does the plugin work with the self hosted version?

[PitaJ]

@djensen47 as far as I know, yes. If it doesn't, we'll fix it. Just open an issue and let us know.

[hollosch]

@PitaJ Hi, ist there a plugin for the latest relase of nodeBB?
@baris This should do preview for outgoing links, or?

[phenomlab]

@hollosch Yes, you can use the nodebb-plugin-iframely plugin, but ensure you use

https://github.com/itteco/iframely

For the self hosted install.