Video embeds from facebook.com and other sites fail

This also happens with Reddit now if the OP is a video.

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Sure, can you take a look at that @techAPJ?

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I think it’s a pattern we’ve started seeing on popular sites wherein the sites are protective of video being downloaded locally and therefore they want users to see the video on their own website or on official iframe embed (instead of providing direct video source link).

In case of Reddit since we already have video poster image as seen on your post, I’ll update the onebox to show poster image and overlay play button on top of that. Similar to what we have for Instagram videos.

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Facebook video oneboxing now works via:

https://github.com/discourse/onebox/commit/dabced7048814a9d41d3f7224f38a7746f6c3a56

Demo:

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Reddit videos will now onebox properly, as per:

Demo:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/ges1oo/catexe_has_stopped_responding/

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