# Onebox support for all datatypes on archive.org

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-support-for-all-datatypes-on-archive-org/28516>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [May 8, 2015, 10:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-support-for-all-datatypes-on-archive-org/28516 "2015-05-08T22:36:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-support-for-all-datatypes-on-archive-org/28516/2 "2015-05-09T03:06:30Z")

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I think that [archive.org](http://archive.org) needs its own onebox engine to handle all the types of content.

Would need an embedding behavior for all of the data types:

```plaintext
article audio collection data education etree image movies software texts web                       

```

I think we need help from someone more familiar with their stuff - e.g. what is an etree?

Useful notes:

- For the embeddable types, you can change /details/ to /embed/ and iframe that. But if the type isn’t embeddable, you get a blank screen of HTML.
- Change /details/ to /metadata/ to get a JSON description of the item.
- Not all ‘mediatype=software’ has an /embed/ view. Counterexample: [Chessmaster 10th Edition Demo : Ubi Soft Entertainment Software : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/Chessmaster10thEditionDemo)

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