Onebox Twitter embedding

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

@techAPJ

Onebox now uses official Twitter Embed API:

I’ve noticed that links to accounts don’t get oneboxed but links to tweets do.

Is this a Twitter issue?

e.g.:

https://twitter.com/codinghorror

Account

Tweet

Jeff Atwood

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Why? It’s a bit unusual to link an account versus a tweet. I can’t even recall seeing that in the wild? It is a nice to have I suppose, but so rare.

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc all onebox nicely when linked to the account itself (rather than a specific post).

Twitter stood out a mile because it doesn’t.

[david (David Taylor)]

@david

@awesomerobot

Are we able to calculate the aspect ratio of these and maybe append a style based on that? the iframe seems to come with height/width

Yes, we can do that

This has been on my list for a while

Twitter videos are now rendered with a fixed aspect ratio which works across all screen sizes:

Discourse

I think it’s working ok, but let me know if we need any more tweaks to the HTML @awesomerobot

[aschrijver (Arnold Schrijver)]

For some reason Twitter always gives me the small onebox layout. So this link in this tweet looks like:

The image in the topic is 1600 x 1062 (though scaled to 75%). Is there a way to get the large onebox tweets to be generated instead?

[techAPJ (Arpit Jalan)]

You might want to look at:

Discourse does not produce large, more engaging Twitter cards

Is there any way to overwrite the behavior of def crawlable_meta_data with a simple plugin? In particular, we would like to change: elsif opts[:image].present? result << tag(:meta, name: 'twitter:card', content: "summary") result << tag(:meta, name: "twitter:image", content: opts[:image]) to elsif opts[:image].present? result << tag(:meta, name: 'twitter:card', content: "summary_large_image") result << tag(:meta, name: "twitter:image", content: opts[:image]) as we’re…