Opened 10 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#33783 closed task (blessed) (fixed)
Improve oEmbed support for Photobucket
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Milestone: | 4.4 | Priority: | low |
Severity: | normal | Version: | |
Component: | Embeds | Keywords: | 2nd-opinion has-patch |
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Description
Previously: #28379
Photobucket should be removed as an oEmbed provider. Finding an oEmbeddable URL for an image on Photobucket is all but impossible, and both the site and its oEmbed endpoint perform redirects on redirects on redirects.
If anyone objects, speak now or forever hold your peace.
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Change History (10)
#3
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10 years ago
Out of interest, if this were to be removed, what happens to content already included the Photobucket oEmbed URLs? Do their images break?
#4
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10 years ago
- Keywords 2nd-opinion added
When photobucket.com/oembed?url=http://i123.photobucket.com[...]
is requested, it redirects to api.photobucket.com
which in turn redirects to api123.photobucket.com
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We could cut out one of the redirects by switching the oEmbed endpoint to api.photobucket.com
, which it clearly should be anyway.
Sending the main photo page's URL to the oEmbed endpoint results in a 404. You need to use the 'Direct' URL from the 'Share Links' section on the page. @pento / @jkudish Does the partnerships team at WP.com have a contact at Photobucket? It'd be good if these URLs were embeddable. I suspect that WP.com's implementation supports the main photo page URL.
#5
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10 years ago
+1 to fix. As annoying as this is, it's still a widely used service that we should work to support.
I'm more inclined to fix it than remove it. It's still pretty popular on WP.com, with ~500k embeds per day.