How can I get Mixcloud and HeartThis to auto-embed?

[cualupe]

I run a music forum and really need links from mixcloud.com and hearthis.at to auto-embed on the forum.

Is there a way to make this happen?

[Nathan Explosion]

Post in the Product Feedback forum to request them to be added to the functionality - mixcloud supports oembed

I can't find any reference to oembed on the hearthis site though.

[cualupe]

9 hours ago, Nathan Explosion said:

Post in the Product Feedback forum to request them to be added to the functionality - mixcloud supports oembed

I can't find any reference to oembed on the hearthis site though.

So how does that work? IPS devs add them over time and a new update is released or something?

[Nathan Explosion]

Pretty much - target site supoorts oembed, IPS integrates a check/lookup for the target site url and then presents the embeded content.

Example: take a look at the oembed response for the mixcloud link in the link I added above:

https://www.mixcloud.com/oembed/?url=https%3A//www.mixcloud.com/spartacus/party-time/&format=json

{
    "provider_url": "https://www.mixcloud.com", 
    "image": "//thumbnail.mixcloud.com/w/600/h/600/q/85/upload/images/extaudio/61a1279f-e3c0-4871-aa8e-c4cf5466edb8.png", 
    "author_name": "Spartacus", 
    "height": 328, 
    "cache_age": 86400, 
    "embed": "<iframe width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?autoplay=&amp;embed_type=widget_standard&amp;embed_uuid=a04e956f-1cde-4e72-bf65-82265c98c240&amp;feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fspartacus%2Fparty-time%2F&amp;hide_artwork=&amp;hide_cover=&amp;hide_tracklist=&amp;light=&amp;mini=&amp;replace=0&amp;stylecolor=\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe><div style=\"clear:both; height:3px; width:300;\"></div><p style=\"display:block; font-size:11px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin:0; padding: 3px 4px; color:#999; width:300;\"><a href=\"https://www.mixcloud.com/spartacus/party-time/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=resource_link\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#808080; font-weight:bold;\">Party Time</a><span> by </span><a href=\"https://www.mixcloud.com/spartacus/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=profile_link\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#808080; font-weight:bold;\">Spartacus</a><span> on </span><a href=\"https://www.mixcloud.com/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=homepage_link\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#808080; font-weight:bold;\"> Mixcloud</a></p><div style=\"clear:both; height:3px;\"></div>", 
    "title": "Party Time", 
    "url": "https://www.mixcloud.com/spartacus/party-time/", 
    "html": "<iframe width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?autoplay=&amp;embed_type=widget_standard&amp;embed_uuid=a04e956f-1cde-4e72-bf65-82265c98c240&amp;feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fspartacus%2Fparty-time%2F&amp;hide_artwork=&amp;hide_cover=&amp;hide_tracklist=&amp;light=&amp;mini=&amp;replace=0&amp;stylecolor=\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe><div style=\"clear:both; height:3px; width:300;\"></div><p style=\"display:block; font-size:11px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin:0; padding: 3px 4px; color:#999; width:300;\"><a href=\"https://www.mixcloud.com/spartacus/party-time/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=resource_link\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#808080; font-weight:bold;\">Party Time</a><span> by </span><a href=\"https://www.mixcloud.com/spartacus/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=profile_link\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#808080; font-weight:bold;\">Spartacus</a><span> on </span><a href=\"https://www.mixcloud.com/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=homepage_link\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#808080; font-weight:bold;\"> Mixcloud</a></p><div style=\"clear:both; height:3px;\"></div>", 
    "width": 300, 
    "version": "1.0", 
    "author_url": "https://www.mixcloud.com/spartacus/", 
    "provider_name": "Mixcloud", 
    "type": "rich"
}

See the 'embed' code.....that link above would (could) result in that code being placed in the editor and result in the embedded version of the following link:

https://www.mixcloud.com/spartacus/party-time/

Basically - if the target site supports oembed then IPS can implement support for it. Would be cool if it could happen without the need for updates from IPS though

 

[cualupe]

6 hours ago, Nathan Explosion said:

Would be cool if it could happen without the need for updates from IPS though

 

Yeah you're not wrong. That's how it used to work for me on phpbb3 and bbcode. Having to wait for updates from the supplier is a bit of a pain.