A co-admin new to Discourse was going through the options and pointed out that “Onebox” wasn’t exactly intuitive. Maybe it’s worth adding a heading to that page about what Onebox is?
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This might help:
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I am trying to embed something from autodesk360.com and it doesn’t seem to register. Is there a way within my discourse admin settings to allow for this iframe to show?
I believe @sam added a feature where you can whitelist iframes.
Another option if you haven’t already ruled it out might be Sketchfab, it looks like a lot of people have been using it to share their 3D models on a Discourse instance. If you search for Sketchfab here, you might find some examples of what you are looking for.
For clarity, would I be correct in thinking that Onebox is using oEmbed to provide embedded previews of links (ie that onebox is Discourse’s elsewhere-cryptically-referenced native support for oEmbed?)
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Yes, onebox leverages OpenGraph and oEmbed tags, if present on the target site.
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Hi,
I have Discourse version 2.5.3. If I copy Youtube links or use the hyperlink, it only shows me the link I don’t see any image with it. Do I need to do something specific to make it work ?
Thank you
@ondrej I am entering it on a separate line
Some possible reasons:
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the youtube video has specified it is not allowed to embed (in the youtube settings for the video)
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your server IP is blacklisted by youtube
The latter one can be tested by posting the youtube video link here. If it works here..
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Where does the naming come from? Why is it called “Onebox”? I know the individual words “one” (as number) and “box” (as container).
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I believe it’s a name Google came up with ~20 years ago, it was “one box” to show certain types of answers to queries
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