Twitter embeds no longer showing

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#1

Cannot find any mention of this so far; I’m running a completely regular Discourse instance currently on 2.5.0.beta6 and we’re getting an issue where newly created Twitter links just show a pair of brackets instead of any content. There’s still the outline structure of the usual embed layout, just no content.

This is a recent change, and older Twitter links are showing just fine, it’s only stuff in the last week or so that’s not right. I’ve run a test on this forum and it’s dragging all the content in just fine.

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#2

This is what we get at the moment:

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#3

Could it be specific to your forum? I just copied a tweet and it renders fine here

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#4

Oh definitely, I tested on here before posting and it was fine for me too. I just cannot work out what it is that’s causing the issue, as I’ve not changed any settings in quite a while, just done the updates as and when they come out.

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#5

Could it be that twitter is throttling you for some reason? Have you added twitter api keys to your forum to enable rich embedding?

EDIT: my suspicion is correct, twitter have removed support for opengraph tags so you’ll need to enable rich embeds by adding api keys to your discourse

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#6

I’ve followed those instructions, the rich embeds don’t work properly (no images get pulled through for example), and basic pasting of Twitter URLs still yields the above set of brackets.

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#7

I’m starting to wonder if a forum update has failed at some point; is there an easy way to test this or to pull the whole repository and rebuild without destroying the forum (some down time is perfectly acceptable)?

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#8

Duplicate of Twitter embeds have broken

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