Some oEmbed endpoints should probably be dropped

[wonderboymusic]

The following services: SmugMug, Viddler, Photobucket, and Scribd

Whether these are useful or not, most seem to be enterprise services now or exclusively paywall. On top of that, their endpoints are broken, or our parsing is bad.

Let us find out.

[wonderboymusic]

Scribd is ok if we change the endpoint to #https?://(www\.)?scribd\.com/doc/.*#i - /read/ is the new paid service that doesn't seem to allow embedding.

[wonderboymusic]

Example URL that works: ​http://www.scribd.com/doc/110799637/Synthesis-of-Knowledge-Effects-of-Fire-and-Thinning-Treatments-on-Understory-Vegetation-in-Dry-U-S-Forests

[wonderboymusic]

Photobucket's enpoint "works" but causes multiple 302 redirects which sometimes extend past the 5 second timeout. Also, getting the URLs that are oembed-able is next to impossible. The URLs for the pages on the site and the gallery links are not embeddable. Only the actual JPGs and "albums" are. Even when you click an "album" for a user, the URLs are not those that are embeddable. The embeddable links are one of the share link options, but you wouldn't know to pick them.

[wonderboymusic]

In 28595:

Update the Scribd oEmbed pattern to more actually represent which endpoints from the site are discoverable.

See #28379.

[wonderboymusic]

Viddler deleted all personal videos: ​https://gigaom.com/2014/02/07/viddler-gets-ready-to-delete-personal-videos/

It's oEmbed endpoint does not work anymore: ​http://www.viddler.com/oembed/?url=http://viddler.com

[wonderboymusic]

In 28596:

RIP Viddler oEmbed support.

More: ​https://gigaom.com/2014/02/07/viddler-gets-ready-to-delete-personal-videos/

See #28379.

[wonderboymusic]

SmugMug remains elusive. I will implore somebody to find me URLs that consistently work.

[MikeHansenMe]

I found a few endpoints that do work on SmugMug. I also reached out to a friend who works at SmugMug and let them know about some that I found that do not work. If we can get a list of additional endpoints that should work but do not, they seem willing to get it fixed up.

Work
​http://www.smugmug.com/popular/all%23125787395_hQSj9
​http://mikehansenme.smugmug.com/Oembed-test

Do Not Work
​http://mikehansenme.smugmug.com/Oembed-test/i-TQWQFvC/0/S/IMG_0598-S.jpg
​http://mikehansenme.smugmug.com/Oembed-test/i-TQWQFvC/0/X3/IMG_0598-X3.jpg
​http://mikehansenme.smugmug.com/photos/swfpopup.mg?AlbumID=41111337&AlbumKey=3JBg96

SmugMug said this is something they definitely want to support and improve on their end.

Note: this is a trial account so it will expire in a few weeks.

[simonwheatley]

Possibly related? #27237

[helen]

Realistically, this is a bug. But we should still sort it out soon.

[DrewAPicture]

Let's call this fixed for 4.0 and move to new tickets for issues with smugmug and/or other endpoints.