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OEmbedPlugin

Easy embedding of third party content

oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.

All you need to do to embed material from one of the supported providers is to add a link to it. The plugin will contact the provider and use the appropriate code to add it to the page, e.g. add an iframe for videos and the like.

Supported providers

  1. 23HQ
  2. Abraia
  3. ActBlue
  4. Adilo
  5. Adways
  6. AltiumLLC
  7. Altru
  8. Amtraker
  9. Animatron
  10. Animoto
  11. AnnieMusic
  12. Apester
  13. ArcGISStoryMaps
  14. Archivos
  15. AudioClip
  16. Audioboom
  17. Audiomack
  18. Audiomeans
  19. Avocode
  20. Backtracks
  21. Beautiful.AI
  22. Blackfire.io
  23. Blogcast
  24. Bookingmood
  25. BoxOfficeBuz
  26. BrioVR
  27. Bumper
  28. Buttondown
  29. ByzartProject
  30. CHROCO
  31. Cacoo
  32. CatBoat
  33. Catapult
  34. Ceros
  35. Chainflix
  36. ChartBlocks
  37. CircuitLab
  38. Clipland
  39. Clyp
  40. CoCoCorp
  41. CodeHS
  42. CodePen
  43. CodeSandbox
  44. Codepoints
  45. CollegeHumor
  46. Commaful
  47. Coub
  48. CrowdRanking
  49. Crumb.sh
  50. CueupDJBooking
  51. Curated
  52. CustomerDB
  53. DALEXNI
  54. DTube
  55. Dailymotion
  56. Datawrapper
  57. DeseretNews
  58. Deviantart.com
  59. Didacte
  60. Digiteka
  61. DocDroid
  62. Dotsub
  63. EgliseInfo
  64. Embedery
  65. Embedly
  66. EnystreMusic
  67. Ethfiddle
  68. EventLive
  69. Ex.Co
  70. Eyrie
  71. FITE
  72. FOXSPORTSAustralia
  73. Facebook
  74. Fader
  75. FaithlifeTV
  76. Firework
  77. Flat
  78. Flickr
  79. Flourish
  80. FrameBuzz
  81. Framer
  82. GIPHY
  83. GMetri
  84. GTChannel
  85. GeographBritainandIreland
  86. GeographChannelIslands
  87. GeographGermany
  88. GettyImages
  89. Gfycat
  90. Gifnote
  91. GloriaTV
  92. Gong
  93. Grain
  94. Gyazo
  95. HASH
  96. HippoVideo
  97. Homey
  98. HuffDuffer
  99. Hulu
  100. IFTTT
  101. Idomoo
  102. Incredible
  103. Indaco
  104. Infogram
  105. Infoveave
  106. Injurymap
  107. Inoreader
  108. Instagram
  109. InsticatorInc
  110. Issuu
  111. Jovian
  112. KakaoTv
  113. Kickstarter
  114. Kidoju
  115. Kirim.Email
  116. Kit
  117. Kitchenbowl
  118. Knacki
  119. KnowledgePad
  120. Kooapp
  121. LeMans.Pod
  122. LearningApps.org
  123. Lille.Pod
  124. Livestream
  125. LottieFiles
  126. Ludus
  127. Lumiere
  128. MathEmbed
  129. Matterport
  130. MediaLab
  131. MedienarchivderKünste-ZürcherHochschulederKünste
  132. MermaidInk
  133. MicrosoftStream
  134. Minerva
  135. MixCloud
  136. MobyPicture
  137. MusicBoxManiacs
  138. NFTNDX.IO
  139. Namchey
  140. Nasjonalbiblioteket
  141. NaturalAtlas
  142. NoPaste
  143. OZ
  144. Observable
  145. Odds.com.au
  146. Odesli(formerlySonglink)
  147. Odysee
  148. OfficialFM
  149. Omniscope
  150. OmnyStudio
  151. OraTV
  152. Orbitvu
  153. Outplayed.tv
  154. Overflow
  155. Padlet
  156. PandaVideo
  157. Pastery
  158. PingVP
  159. Pinpoll
  160. Pinterest
  161. PitchHub
  162. Pixdor
  163. Podbean
  164. PollDaddy
  165. Portfolium
  166. Present
  167. PreziVideo
  168. Quiz.biz
  169. Quizz.biz
  170. RadioPublic
  171. Raindrop
  172. Reddit
  173. ReleaseWire
  174. Replit
  175. ReverbNation
  176. Roomshare
  177. RoosterTeeth
  178. Rumble
  179. Runkit
  180. Saooti
  181. SapoVideos
  182. Screen9
  183. Screencast.com
  184. Screenr
  185. ScribbleMaps
  186. Scribd
  187. SendtoNews
  188. ShortNote
  189. Shoudio
  190. ShowbyAnimaker
  191. ShowtheWay,actionablelocationinfo
  192. Simplecast
  193. Sizzle
  194. Sketchfab
  195. SlideShare
  196. SmashNotes
  197. Smrthi
  198. SmugMug
  199. SocialExplorer
  200. SoundCloud
  201. SpeakerDeck
  202. Spotify
  203. Spreaker
  204. SproutVideo
  205. StanfordDigitalRepository
  206. Streamable
  207. Streamio
  208. Subscribi
  209. Sudomemo
  210. Sutori
  211. Sway
  212. SwayOffice
  213. Synthesia
  214. TED
  215. TheNewYorkTimes
  216. TheySaidSo
  217. TickCounter
  218. TikTok
  219. Toornament
  220. Topy
  221. Totango
  222. TrinityAudio
  223. Tumblr
  224. Tuxx
  225. Twitter
  226. TypeCast
  227. Typlog
  228. UAPod
  229. UnivParis1.Pod
  230. UniversityofCambridgeMap
  231. Upec.Pod
  232. Ustream
  233. VEVO
  234. VLIVE
  235. VeeRVR
  236. Verse
  237. Videfit
  238. Vidyard
  239. Vimeo
  240. Viously
  241. Vizydrop
  242. Vlipsy
  243. Vouch
  244. VoxSnap
  245. Waltrack
  246. Wave.video
  247. Wiredrive
  248. Wistia,Inc.
  249. Wokwi
  250. WolframCloud
  251. WordPress.com
  252. YouTube
  253. Zeplin
  254. ZingSoft
  255. ZnipeTV
  256. Zoomable
  257. afreecaTV
  258. amChartsLiveEditor
  259. chirbit.com
  260. dadan
  261. eduMedia
  262. everviz
  263. hearthis.at
  264. hihaho
  265. iFixit
  266. iHeartRadio
  267. inphood
  268. kmdr
  269. me.me
  270. myBeweeg
  271. nanoo.tv
  272. nfb.ca
  273. rcvis
  274. tvcf
  275. uStudio,Inc.
  276. wecandeo
  277. wizer.me

A lot of providers are available via http://embed.ly. However, you'll have to register to get an api-key. Some of the listed providers have already been added to this plugin, yet not all.

Syntax

EMBED

%EMBED{"url" [width="..." height="..."]}% (or %OEMBED{...}%)

  • url: an external link to the resource to be embedded
  • width, height: optional maximum values for the image/video/... being embedded (note: not all providers properly implement these parameters)
  • format: a format string to implement a custom renderer
  • template: the name of a template defined in oembed.tmpl; known templates shipped with OEmbedPlugin are "article" (todo add more)
  • quality (youtube only): specify the thumbnail quality; possible values are hq, mq, sd, default and auto; the latter will find out automatically which best thumbnail is available
  • <custom_key>: any custom key="value" pair may be defined and made use of in the format (or template) using $custom_key to expand it; these have higher precendence than the default values submitted by the oembed provider; for example use a custom thumbnail_width="100" parameter to override the default width.

The keys in the json submitted from the oembed provider can be used in a format string (or a template definition). Some well-known keys are:

  • $author_name
  • $author_url
  • $descriptio
  • $html
  • $provider_name
  • $provider_url
  • $thumbnail_height
  • $thumbnail_url
  • $thumbnail_width
  • $title
  • $type
  • $url
  • $web_page

In addition all standard format tokens can be used ($percnt, $dollar, $nop, etc).

See the oembed.tmpl file on how to use them.

OEMBED_PROVIDER

%OEMBED_PROVIDER{["<id>"]}%

  • id: provider name to display the configuration for
  • format: format string, defaults to    1 [[$provider][$name]
  • header: header string added if there was a provider in the list
  • footer: footer string added if ...
  • separator: separator string inserted between each provider found
  • exampleformat: format strings for available examples
  • exampleheader
  • examplefooter
  • exampleseparator
  • include: regular expression that the provider must match to be included in the output
  • exclude: regular expression that the provider must not match to be included in the output

The format string may use the following variables

  • $name: name of provider
  • $examples: example string constructed from example[format,header,footer,separator]
  • $provider: url address of the provider
  • $api: api address for the oembed endpoint
  • $url: list of patterns that an url must match to be processed by this provider

To display all examples stored in the provider records use:

<form action="%SCRIPTURLPATH{"view"}%/%WEB%/%TOPIC%">
*Url*: 
<input type="text" size="80" name="url" value="%URLPARAM{"url"}%" />
<input type="submit" class="foswikiButton" value="Embed" />
</form>

%IF{"$'URLPARAM{url}'!=''"
  then="$percntEMBED{\"%URLPARAM{"url"}%\"}$percnt"
}%

%OEMBED_PROVIDER{
   format="   1 $name: $examples"
   exampleformat="[[%SCRIPTURLPATH{"view"}%/%WEB%/%TOPIC%?url=$url][example]]"
}%

Examples

Youbtube

%EMBED{"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8e8Ttfz-pY" width="600"}%

%EMBED{"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8e8Ttfz-pY" width="600"}%

Soundcloud

%EMBED{"https://soundcloud.com/safia-music/listen-to-soul-listen-to-blues" width="600"}%

%EMBED{"https://soundcloud.com/safia-music/listen-to-soul-listen-to-blues" width="600"}%

Flickr

%EMBED{"https://www.flickr.com/photos/onement/1239189689/" height="400"}%
%EMBED{"https://www.flickr.com/photos/onement/1239189689/" height="400"}%

Installation Instructions

You do not need to install anything in the browser to use this extension. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the extension on the server.

Open configure, and open the "Extensions" section. "Extensions Operation and Maintenance" Tab -> "Install, Update or Remove extensions" Tab. Click the "Search for Extensions" button. Enter part of the extension name or description and press search. Select the desired extension(s) and click install. If an extension is already installed, it will not show up in the search results.

You can also install from the shell by running the extension installer as the web server user: (Be sure to run as the webserver user, not as root!)
cd /path/to/foswiki
perl tools/extension_installer <NameOfExtension> install

If you have any problems, or if the extension isn't available in configure, then you can still install manually from the command-line. See https://foswiki.org/Support/ManuallyInstallingExtensions for more help.

Dependencies

NameVersionDescription
Moo>=0Required
Regexp::Assemble>=0Required
Foswiki::Contrib::CacheContrib>=0Required

Change History

05 May 2022 added a few more oembed providers
03 Mar 2021 adedd microsoft stream provider
22 Jan 2020 imported provider from https://github.com/iamcal/oembed; implemented %OEMBED_PROVIDER
13 Mar 2019 document quality parameter when embeding youtube videos; added quality="auto" to fetch the best thumbnail available; added support for proxy
25 Sep 2017 added clearCache REST interface for local cache maintenance
17 Nov 2016 more providers; converted Web::oEmbed from Any::Moose to Moo
07 Oct 2015 multiple providers went in & out
16 Mar 2015 added Infogram
23 Feb 2015 added a few more provider
16 Dec 2014 have an image preview for vimeo and youtube and only embed the real video when clicking on it; added Vine
25 Sep 2014 added caching
24 Sep 2014 added a custom renderer for youtube videos
29 Aug 2014 removed my opera, qirk and urtak; use https whereever possible
01 Nov 2013 added more providers
30 Aug 2013 added more providers
24 Jun 2013 added format, template and custom params; added a few more providers

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Topic revision: r14 - 05 May 2022, MichaelDaum
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