Can I embed instagram video into a post?

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How can we embed an Instagram video directly in a post?

When I copy/paste the Instagram embeded code I get a link which leads to the video page but I’d like to get the video directly in the post. Would it be possible?

Exemple below:

Light compass

A post shared by Trevor Traynor (@trevortraynor) on Jun 20, 2013 at 12:55pm PDT

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You can’t do it in one click at the moment but you can find the direct link and post it, it should work fine

https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/b88bbd00c14756143f79bb61e09407cd/5A1C35C1/t50.2886-16/11658051_983140358384453_881657892_n.mp4

The easiest way is to use a website like this one : https://www.w3toys.com/video/

Instead of downloading the video, you can copy the link

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Thanks Steven.

Does that mean this has been planned for the next releases of Discourse?

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I’m not a onebox specialist, but I think they (sometimes) depend of the API from the app developpers.

Twitter updated their API a few times lately (to integrate images in a tweet, then the new 280 characters limit), so maybe Instagram will do the same one day for the videos

But it may be a choice from Discourse too, I’m not really sure on this one

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