DVD Talk Forum - Fix Twitter embedding

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- - Fix Twitter embedding (https://forum.dvdtalk.com/forum-feedback-support/638764-fix-twitter-embedding.html)

TheBang

01-17-17 03:09 PM

Fix Twitter embedding

Can we fix Twitter auto-embedding on this site, please? It makes posting Twitter links impossible.

I looked into this a bit, and bare links like this:

Code:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/820764134857969666

get auto-converted into HTML code like this:

Code:

<div style="display: none;" id="ame_noshow_post_1484521830_1">

        <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/820764134857969666" title="Twitter" target="_blank">Twitter</a>

</div>

<div style="display: inline;" id="ame_doshow_post_1484521830_1">

<div id="tweet_ame_1484521830_1_820764134857969666"></div>

********>(function(jQ){jQ.ajax({url:"https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/oembed.json?id=820764134857969666",dataType:"jsonp",async:true,success:function(data){jQ("#tweet_ame_1484521830_1_820764134857969666").html(data.html)}});})(jQuery);*********>

</div>

It's obviously not working because of the word filter auto-conversion of text into asterisks: ********. I believe the converted text is "script" and "/script" (with angle brackets).

I doubt this is fixable without unconditionally allowing script tags (or a lot of effort, which I think is obvious you guys don't want to put in for this site). "tweet_ame" seems to indicate that this auto-embedding is being done by a module for Automatic Media Embedder.

Can you just disable the Twitter embedding function, so that we can paste bare Twitter links without the forum completely mangling them?

Dan	01-17-17 03:27 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

Yes please! Either make it work like it should, or kill the twitter embedding code that exists in here entirely. What it does now is complete garbage.

Deftones

01-17-17 05:13 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

They will get around to it.....In 2021

Cardsfan111

01-17-17 08:51 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

Way too optimistic, Deftones. ;)

fumanstan

01-19-17 12:17 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

Agreed, embedding of widely popular sites like Twitter should be a no brainer.

IBrshao

01-20-17 06:53 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

Hi Everyone,

So I just talked to tech and unfortunately we are not going to be able to support embedding twitter links.

To enable HTML on VBulletin we had to disable scripts and this is what is causing Twitter embedding to not work.

slop101

01-22-17 09:52 AM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

So how about being able to just post raw links without the link getting all garbled with a bunch of asterisks?

Dan	01-22-17 02:41 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

^ you mean the bare minimum they could possibly provide? Come on, now.

The Valeyard

01-23-17 12:36 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

Quote:

Originally Posted by IBrshao (Post 12993134)

Hi Everyone,

So I just talked to tech and unfortunately we are not going to be able to support embedding twitter links.

http://i64.tinypic.com/8xpwqo.jpg

ibobi

01-25-17 02:24 PM

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Dan	01-25-17 02:39 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

:banana: 2017, baby! :banana:

(Seriously, thanks IBobi)

Cardsfan111

01-25-17 03:02 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

Test:

Edit: Much better. Thanks!

DJariya

01-26-17 12:46 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

Test: Instagram photo:

I don't see it. What am I doing wrong?

fumanstan

01-26-17 01:03 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

I see your post DJariya.

Also, there's a dvdtalk twitter account?

DJariya

01-26-17 01:06 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

Oh okay, I guess it was delayed. It didn't show up after I posted it initially.

TheBang

01-26-17 08:04 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

Whelp. Credit where it's due. You guys fixed something for us.

The one caveat (for users) to be aware of is that I believe both of these auto-embeds require loading of additional JavaScript, but when posting a quick reply, the page scripts have already finished loading. So when your reply is posted, you yourself won't be able to see the embed properly until you refresh the page.

The Valeyard

01-29-17 11:22 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

Thanks, IBobi!

EinCB

01-30-17 07:20 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

Who said the Bannon administration was going to be a bad one?

Spoiler:

Supermallet

06-16-17 10:08 AM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

Twitter embedding works, which is great, but whenever someone embeds a tweet it doesn't show up in my browser. How can I fix that?

Dan	06-16-17 10:20 AM

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^ What browser are you using? Does it work in another browser?

Supermallet

06-16-17 10:37 AM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

Firefox on my laptop and Brave on my phone. They do show up on Safari on my laptop, but that browser is much less secure than Firefox.

TomOpus

06-16-17 10:58 AM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

Awesome, thanks iBobi.

Dan	06-16-17 11:46 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Supermallet (Post 13096761)

Firefox on my laptop and Brave on my phone. They do show up on Safari on my laptop, but that browser is much less secure than Firefox.

I just installed Brave.
You're right. In this thread, the instagram embeds look just fine, but the twitter embeds are invisible. Seems like something that could be fixed with a tweak. Let's hope they look into it. :)

Supermallet

06-16-17 04:11 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

If I quote a post with an embedded tweet, I can copy the URL and paste it into another tab to see the original tweet, but obviously that is a pain.

Dan	04-06-18 03:00 PM

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Bumping this because the way twitter embeds work here seems to be the opposite of how the actual twitter posts themselves look. Everywhere else, the TEXT appears above the picture/link. Here, the picture/link appears above the TEXT.

Any way to swap that around? It's a tiny issue, at best, but just something I wanted to mention.

Example.

This is how this looks on twitter.com, the mobile app, and pretty much anywhere else:
https://i.imgur.com/SJ2MB1p.png

This is (generally) how it looks here:
https://i.imgur.com/aoSWQg9.png

TheBang

04-07-18 05:51 AM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

That is weird, but I think it looks like DVDTalk is using an old API or something, because the layout is entirely different. Look at the icons, fonts, etc. That would explain why.

Edit: Actually, it appears that's the way embedded tweets work. So there's nothing to fix. Check out the example in the dev documentation:

https://dev.twitter.com/web/embedded-tweets

Dan	04-07-18 08:45 AM

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Yup, you're right. I thought I saw it the other way on other sites when embedded but I guess I'm wrong. It's weird that Twitter would have it one way for the official apps but another way entirely for embeds.

I imagine they have more pertinent issues to deal with, that this will probably never change on their side.

Dan	05-02-18 09:37 PM

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So... on a different site I visit, Twitter embedding is done the right way (text on top, pic on bottom). Like this:
https://i.imgur.com/vQtAvLa.png

So... why is DVDTalk's embedding different than that? Are they using some kind of custom embed?

TheBang

05-02-18 10:38 PM

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Dan	05-02-18 10:45 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

Weird. Testing.
This (from post 26):

VS this (from post 29):

So one has the pic on top, and one has the pic on the bottom. Is it because one is an @ reply? Hmm...

edit: another pic that's not a reply. (pic on top)

So, if I understand this right... pics will only show under the text if it's in a reply. Weird.

TheBang

05-02-18 11:09 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

I think that's right, because it's in a reply or part of a conversation. I tested on my own forums, and got the same results. I suspect if you post the Donald Trump tweet on your resetera forum, it'll be picture on top just like here.

Dan	05-02-18 11:19 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by TheBang (Post 13323740)

I suspect if you post the Donald Trump tweet on your resetera forum

I dare not! :lol:
Yeah, you're right, though. I found another embedded tweet that wasn't a reply, and it looked like it does here. Oh well... thought I was onto something for a minute there.

LorenzoL

06-27-18 03:01 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

How do you embed a tweet here on mobile? I share tweet and copy link. And paste it in a post. Why is it coming up as a link?

Dan	06-27-18 04:15 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

On mobile, for some reason, Twitter adds a ?s=21 to the end of the tweet URL. You just have to remove those characters.

LorenzoL

06-27-18 06:44 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan (Post 13361493)

On mobile, for some reason, Twitter adds a ?s=21 to the end of the tweet URL. You just have to remove those characters.

Thank you Dan!

andicus

11-21-18 09:51 AM

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Probably a different issue, but when I try to embed a tweet, or quote someone else that has an embedded tweet, I get an error.

Does anyone else with Chrome get this message, and is there a workaround?

http://i65.tinypic.com/2ngbdwm.jpg

IDrinkMolson

11-21-18 10:51 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by andicus (Post 13447834)

I get it too, and youtube embeds in Google Chrome.

I log into MS Edge and it works fine there. :shrug:

fumanstan

11-21-18 10:57 AM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

No issues here on Chrome, and I've posted a decent amount of embedded tweets.

Dan	11-21-18 11:05 AM

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I get that exact error on one of my PCs, but not the other. Both using Chrome. It's strange. I wonder if it's related to adblock and how I may or may not have done something strange with the settings.

Best bet is probably to completely uninstall Chrome, reboot, and re-install Chrome. See if that fixes it.

andicus

11-21-18 03:38 PM

Re: Fix Twitter embedding

I thought it might be uBlock Origin, so I disabled it, but the issues persisted.

Come to think of it, I also get the issue with YouTube embeds. So I just do it the old way, with the [ yt] tags.

FWIW, I'm using Chrome Version 69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Win7 Pro, SP1.

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