Media shortcode. Requests accepted

colak · 2020-07-16 15:48:59

I would love some suggestions re Giphy which offers two types of urls

giphy.com/gifs/name
giphy.com/videos/name

Their embed codes are independent of these but as this shortcode provides an external link to the page of the media based on their id, some of the resulting urls for giphy may be wrong. As such, I am thinking to:

use the already existing url attribute and expect a value of videos or gifs
use the same attribute and expect any value if it is a video or no value if it is a gif (implemented for now)
Create a new attribute offering one of the options above.

What do you think would be the best method?

colak · 2020-07-20 10:38:16

This is ready and supports embeds from 15 external hosts, as well as 7 formats for the html5 audio element and 5 formats for the video element. It basically works for most hosts with the use of only 3 attributes.

I’ll have to add more attributes for my next version in order to deal with the complexities in the url schemas from hosts like Basecamp.

I hope that it’ll be of use to someone in the community.

michaelkpate · 2020-07-20 12:43:24

I added example for the new ones. I’ve found one issue

The one for Metacafe

Looking at the page source, it is showing the yield statement instead of the contents.

<div class="embed-container" id="m_12097962" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/VideoObject"> <iframe src="https://www.metacafe.com/embed/<txp:yield="media" />/" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div>

Great Job. I had never heard of several of these sites.

michaelkpate · 2020-07-20 13:28:17

One other problem:

					<txp:if_yield name="m4a">
						<source src="<txp:site_url />files/<txp:variable name="audio_file" />.m4a" type="audio/m4a">
					</txp:if_yield>
					<txp:if_yield name="mp3">
						<source src="<txp:site_url /><txp:variable name="audio_file" />.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
					</txp:if_yield>
					<txp:if_yield name="ogg">
						<source src="<txp:site_url /><txp:variable name="audio_file" />.ogg" type="audio/ogg">							
					</txp:if_yield>
					<txp:if_yield name="mp4">
						<source src="<txp:site_url /><txp:variable name="audio_file" />.mp4" type="audio/mp4">
					</txp:if_yield>
					<txp:if_yield name="aac">
						<source src="<txp:site_url /><txp:variable name="audio_file" />.aac" type="audio/aac">
					</txp:if_yield>
					<txp:if_yield name="webm">
						<source src="<txp:site_url /><txp:variable name="audio_file" />.webm" type="audio/webm">
					</txp:if_yield>
					<txp:if_yield name="flac">
						<source src="<txp:site_url /><txp:variable name="audio_file" />.ogg" type="audio/flac">
					</txp:if_yield>

Only the first one, m4a, includes /files/ in the url.

Bloke · 2020-07-20 13:33:02

michaelkpate wrote #324706:

Looking at the page source, it is showing the yield statement instead of the contents.

Perhaps <txp:yield="media" /> should be <txp:yield name="media" />?

michaelkpate · 2020-07-20 13:43:24

This isn’t an error but just an example of how to use it.

I don’t like embedding code in articles so I had been using custom fields.

        <txp:if_custom_field name="from">
            <txp::media from='<txp:custom_field name="from" />' media='<txp:custom_field name="media" />' title='<txp:custom_field name="title" />' url='<txp:custom_field name="url" />' escape="trim, tidy" />
        </txp:if_custom_field>

With the changes, I had to do some refactoring but this works.

        <txp:if_custom_field name="from">

                <txp:variable name="notlocal" value="yes" />

                <txp:if_custom_field name="from" value="local_v">
                                <txp::media from='<txp:custom_field name="from" />' media='<txp:custom_field name="media" />' title='<txp:custom_field name="title" />' <txp:custom_field name="url" />  escape="trim, tidy" />
                                <txp:variable name="notlocal" value="" />
                </txp:if_custom_field>

                <txp:if_custom_field name="from" value="local_a">
                                <txp::media from='<txp:custom_field name="from" />' media='<txp:custom_field name="media" />' title='<txp:custom_field name="title" />' <txp:custom_field name="url" /> escape="trim, tidy" />
                                <txp:variable name="notlocal" value="" />
                </txp:if_custom_field>

                <txp:if_variable name="notlocal" value="yes">
                                <txp::media from='<txp:custom_field name="from" />' media='<txp:custom_field name="media" />' title='<txp:custom_field name="title" />' url='<txp:custom_field name="url" />' escape="trim, tidy" />
                </txp:if_variable>

        </txp:if_custom_field>

michaelkpate · 2020-07-20 13:45:43

Bloke wrote #324708:

Perhaps <txp:yield="media" /> should be <txp:yield name="media" />?

That was indeed the problem. It is working now.

colak · 2020-07-20 13:57:04

michaelkpate wrote #324706:

I added example for the new ones. I’ve found one issue

The one for Metacafe

Looking at the page source, it is showing the yield statement instead of the contents.

<div class="embed-container" id="m_12097962" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/VideoObject"> <iframe src="https://www.metacafe.com/embed/<txp:yield="media" />/" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div>...

Great Job. I had never heard of several of these sites.

That is strange. Did you fix it yourself? If not, it worked just fine from here (img below). Thanks for the files they were missing from both the local audio and video!

colak · 2020-07-20 14:00:03

michaelkpate wrote #324710:

That was indeed the problem. It is working now.

~~Indeed or I think that I could just have <txp:yield media />.~~ It may have worked for me on your site because of your correction!

Last edited by colak (2020-07-20 14:20:31)

colak · 2020-07-20 14:14:11

        <txp:if_custom_field name="from">
            <txp::media from='<txp:custom_field name="from" />' media='<txp:custom_field name="media" />' title='<txp:custom_field name="title" />' url='<txp:custom_field name="url" />' escape="trim, tidy" />
        </txp:if_custom_field>

This is fine, except the url may yield some unexpected results because of example 5, example 6, and example 8.

> Edited to add that my nomenclature for the url attribute may be misleading, as although it does return urls, the way it is used is different for each example.

Last edited by colak (2020-07-20 14:18:53)

michaelkpate · 2020-07-20 14:32:05

colak wrote #324712:

It may have worked for me on your site because of your correction!

It did. Sorry for the confusion.

michaelkpate · 2020-07-20 14:34:15

colak wrote #324715:

This is fine, except the url may yield some unexpected results because of example 5, example 6, and example 8.

I didn’t work through all the examples. I’ll have to rethink my approach – probably do a custom call for each site.

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Re: Media shortcode. Requests accepted

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Re: Media shortcode. Requests accepted

#40 2020-07-20 13:28:17

Re: Media shortcode. Requests accepted

#41 2020-07-20 13:33:02

Re: Media shortcode. Requests accepted

michaelkpate wrote #324706:

#42 2020-07-20 13:43:24

Re: Media shortcode. Requests accepted

#43 2020-07-20 13:45:43

Re: Media shortcode. Requests accepted

Bloke wrote #324708:

#44 2020-07-20 13:57:04

Re: Media shortcode. Requests accepted

michaelkpate wrote #324706:

#45 2020-07-20 14:00:03

Re: Media shortcode. Requests accepted

michaelkpate wrote #324710:

#46 2020-07-20 14:14:11

Re: Media shortcode. Requests accepted

#47 2020-07-20 14:32:05

Re: Media shortcode. Requests accepted

colak wrote #324712:

#48 2020-07-20 14:34:15

Re: Media shortcode. Requests accepted

colak wrote #324715:

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