Why Iframely over Embedly?

Dave Jensen

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.

Dave Jensen

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.

How to deploy Iframely API to your own servers - Iframely documentation

Self-host the open-source web embeds parsers for hundreds of domains

Iframely (iframely.com)

<baris>

Also there is nothing preventing someone to build a embedly plugin

Dave Jensen

@baris Yeah, I know.

Dave Jensen

@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

GitHub - itteco/iframely: oEmbed proxy. Supports over 1800 domains via custom parsers, oEmbed, Twitter Cards and Open Graph

oEmbed proxy. Supports over 1800 domains via custom parsers, oEmbed, Twitter Cards and Open Graph - GitHub - itteco/iframely: oEmbed proxy. Supports over 1800 domains via custom parsers, oEmbed, Twitter Cards and Open Graph

GitHub (github.com)

For the self hosted install.