embedX

Generate embeddable HTML or JavaScript code for a online content from its URL in a single step.

The content can be anything like

• Youtube or Vimeo video,
• Twitter status,
• Github Gist, etc.

Embeddable code-generation be simple like this:

>>> from embed_x import OnlineContent
>>> oc = OnlineContent('http://www.youtube.com/embed/_lOT2p_FCvA')
>>> oc.get_embed_code()
"<div class='embedx-yt'><iframe src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/_lOT2p_FCvA' 'frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe></div>"

Currently, supports

• Youtube video,
• Vimeo video,
• Twitter: single status,
• Github gist,
• Flickr image

Examples of URLs

Valid

• http://youtu.be/_lOT2p_FCvA
• www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lOT2p_FCvA&feature=feedu
• http://www.youtube.com/embed/_lOT2p_FCvA
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTHlyTphWP0&index=6&list=PLjeDyYvG6-40qawYNR4juzvSOg-ezZ2a6
• youtube.com/watch?v=_lOT2p_FCvA
• https://vimeo.com/groups/animation/videos/150618894/
• https://vimeo.com/150519302
• https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/686254714938200064

Invalid:

• youtu.be/watch?v=_lOT2p_FCvA [ because Youtube don't give any url like this ]
• https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/with_replies

Install

from PyPI

pip install embedx

Directly from source

pip install git+https://github.com/kmonsoor/embedX.git

Requirements

This library don't have any external dependencies other than standard Python installation.

Usage

>>> from embedx import OnlineContent
>>> oc = OnlineContent('http://www.youtube.com/embed/_lOT2p_FCvA')
>>> oc.extract_id()
'_lOT2p_FCvA'

>>> oc.get_embed_code()
"<div class='embed-container'><iframe src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/_lOT2p_FCvA' 'frameborder='0'allowfullscreen></iframe></div>"

>>> oc = OnlineContent('https://vimeo.com/groups/animation/videos/150618894/')
>>> oc.get_embed_code()
"<div class='embed-container'> <iframe src='http://player.vimeo.com/video/150618894' frameborder='0' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe></div>"

To-do

• Create test cases for automated testing

• Provision Travis-CI for automatic building & testing

• Add support for conda-based installation

• Add more rich-content sites

  • Github gists
  • Facebook status
  • Facebook notes
  • Scribd docs
  • Imgur images

Contributors

• Seed idea : A StackOverflow answer by Mikhail Kashkin
• Author : Khaled Monsoor

Please try to contribute by submitting more content-sites with their different link formats and embed-codes. You can submit through pull-requests or by creating issue.