btw, i don’t know how busy your forum is or how often x/twitter oneboxes are posted, but the basic free twitter plan does work for default oneboxes - it just rate limits to about 1 onebox request per 15 minutes. i have it running on a relatively busy forum and it only seems to limit when people try to post more than one onebox link in a post.
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Unfortunately, i just discovered this stops a lot of YouTube (ie https://youtu.be/) from being embedded because the links redirect to YouTube.
People post far more YouTube links than they ever post X posts. So I’ve disabled for now and will simply edit x.com → twitter.com for now.
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We very rarely have any x/twitter posts mentioned. And Twitter.com oneboxes do work, but X.com do not.
are you sure? i don’t mean this component, i mean the native onebox using a twitter developer free plan api token and with this component disabled. you say you are being hosted - they should be able to set up the default oneboxing like that exists here on Meta.
i have the rich x/twitter embedding for free on 2 different self hosted sites. i use this component when the x/twitter api breaks for whatever reason and just toggle it on and off as needed then.
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I set up a developer free account for X. I am wondering how you get a Twitter one box for embedding?
I have the Native Twitter Embed component working fine, but I am wanting to post in dark mode.
It seems that on some recent Discourse versions, disabling Twitter/X oneboxes does not work well.
Also, this theme component does not work correctly on already existing oneboxes.
I have added some functionality that, in addition to replacing the bare links with a native embed, also looks for Twitter oneboxes, and then does the same thing.
That means there is no need to disable oneboxing or rebuild old posts any more.
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