twitter embed

Bown · 10-15-2016, 12:52 PM

pleeeeeeeease

Space Goat · 10-15-2016, 03:44 PM

This is a lot harder than a video or sound embed. The reason being that twitter includes all content of the tweet (i.e. text, images, links, etc.) as seperate elements within the embed itself. The only way to support this would be to allow users to paste any arbitrary HTML into the vbcode and try and sanitize it for malicious tags (incredibly risky and probably futile) or to implement server side support that queries Twitter's "oembed" REST endpoint for the data (something I don't really have time or interest in writing right now).

I only spent about 5 minutes looking into this, so maybe I'm mistaken. If anyone has any suggestions though, I'm open to hearing them.

Slime · 10-15-2016, 08:52 PM

i know nothing about how it works but i just know the twitter embed works on lots of other sites, reddit etc, so i dont get why we would need to be able to post any HTML/etc

edit: oh i guess the 2nd thing you said is how they do it (oembed), which youd rather not do

Bown · 10-17-2016, 08:28 AM

totally understandable but a bummer

Bobby Swisha · 10-18-2016, 04:48 PM

can we get a Bown post embed? You would type [bown][/bown] and link the post and it would embed it.

Dungeon Snake · 10-18-2016, 04:50 PM

we already have that, see

Quote:

"hahahahaha. yawwwn."

Bobby Swisha · 10-18-2016, 05:34 PM

yeah but I want the avatar in there and all that other junk

Damage Jackal · 10-21-2016, 03:38 AM

how about a filter that replaces every post of BR's with just the word bown over and over again. something like this:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bobby Swisha

bown bown bown bown bown bown bown bown bown bown bown bown bown

Damage Jackal · 10-21-2016, 03:38 AM

oh wait we basically already have that lol!!!!!!!

Bown · 10-21-2016, 10:29 AM

no dude, i'm the bad poster because i don't let myself be bullied, haven't you heard. if i was a good poster i'd just go "lol ur right!!!! i suck!!!!!", apparently.

Bobby Swisha · 10-21-2016, 06:49 PM

I was just wondering last night where the Rudi Defense Forces were at.

Mr Mong · 10-22-2016, 12:10 PM

Does the board support javascript? I think twitter has a Java widget but I don't use it so I'm not %100

Space Goat · 10-22-2016, 12:21 PM

I was thinking about this the other day and realized I failed to consider the likely possibility that Twitter has CORS enabled on their server, meaning I could probably query their oembed service entirely clientside in the browser. This still requires work, but wouldn't be quite as difficult for me to do.

Qaz · 10-22-2016, 12:28 PM

is vbulletin still used elsewhere? Maybe some other people have figured this out already.

Space Goat · 10-22-2016, 12:32 PM

Oh, I'm sure there is a plugin written to do it all, only problem is that the version we're running is incredibly out of date now. Nobody is writting plugins for versions older than 3.8 these days.

Slime · 12-17-2016, 11:08 PM

i forgot that this works on Reddit only because of the Reddit Enhancement Suite addon. also, it was recently removed from that addon on FF for security reasons... so yeah i guess its not that common actually

Quote:

For Twitter, sounds ike you're using Firefox? Mozilla requested that RES turn off the nicely formatted version (using twitter's script) for security reasons.

10-15-2016, 12:52 PM	#1
Bown Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 18,740	twitter embed pleeeeeeeease
Bown Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 18,740

10-15-2016, 08:52 PM	#3
Slime Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 24,891	i know nothing about how it works but i just know the twitter embed works on lots of other sites, reddit etc, so i dont get why we would need to be able to post any HTML/etc edit: oh i guess the 2nd thing you said is how they do it (oembed), which youd rather not do
Slime Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 24,891

10-17-2016, 08:28 AM	#4
Bown Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 18,740	totally understandable but a bummer
Bown Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 18,740

10-21-2016, 10:29 AM	#10
Bown Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 18,740	no dude, i'm the bad poster because i don't let myself be bullied, haven't you heard. if i was a good poster i'd just go "lol ur right!!!! i suck!!!!!", apparently.
Bown Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 18,740

10-22-2016, 12:10 PM	#12
Mr Mong Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 4,293	Does the board support javascript? I think twitter has a Java widget but I don't use it so I'm not %100
Mr Mong Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 4,293

10-15-2016, 03:44 PM	#2
Space Goat Administrator Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,042	This is a lot harder than a video or sound embed. The reason being that twitter includes all content of the tweet (i.e. text, images, links, etc.) as seperate elements within the embed itself. The only way to support this would be to allow users to paste any arbitrary HTML into the vbcode and try and sanitize it for malicious tags (incredibly risky and probably futile) or to implement server side support that queries Twitter's "oembed" REST endpoint for the data (something I don't really have time or interest in writing right now). I only spent about 5 minutes looking into this, so maybe I'm mistaken. If anyone has any suggestions though, I'm open to hearing them.

10-18-2016, 04:48 PM	#5
Bobby Swisha Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 46,012	can we get a Bown post embed? You would type [bown][/bown] and link the post and it would embed it.

10-18-2016, 05:34 PM	#7
Bobby Swisha Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 46,012	yeah but I want the avatar in there and all that other junk

10-21-2016, 03:38 AM	#9
Damage Jackal Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 18,523	oh wait we basically already have that lol!!!!!!!

10-21-2016, 06:49 PM	#11
Bobby Swisha Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 46,012	I was just wondering last night where the Rudi Defense Forces were at.

10-22-2016, 12:21 PM	#13
Space Goat Administrator Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,042	I was thinking about this the other day and realized I failed to consider the likely possibility that Twitter has CORS enabled on their server, meaning I could probably query their oembed service entirely clientside in the browser. This still requires work, but wouldn't be quite as difficult for me to do.

10-22-2016, 12:28 PM	#14
Qaz Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 6,355	is vbulletin still used elsewhere? Maybe some other people have figured this out already.
Qaz Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 6,355

10-22-2016, 12:32 PM	#15
Space Goat Administrator Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,042	Oh, I'm sure there is a plugin written to do it all, only problem is that the version we're running is incredibly out of date now. Nobody is writting plugins for versions older than 3.8 these days.