Strapi plugin oEmbed

Embed content from third party sites (Youtube, Vimeo, Soundcloud, ...) for https://strapi.io

How it works

• Add the field in your model
• When you create a new content, paste the URL of the third party site in the modal
• The data is fetched and stored in the content

Installation

Using npm

npm install --save strapi-plugin-oembed
npm run build

Using yarn

yarn add strapi-plugin-oembed
yarn build

Setup

Go to your model and add the oembed field. For example if you have a content type Article it will be in /api/article/models/article.settings.json and paste the field in the attributes section.

e.g

{
  "kind": "collectionType",
  "collectionName": "articles",
  ...
  "attributes": {
    ...
    "oembed": {
      "type": "oembed",
      "columnType": "longtext"
    }
    ...
  }
}

Now you'll have the oembed field when you create a new article.

Example of the data fetched

If you paste the url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkiOqSTVGds in the modal, this data will be stored:

{
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkiOqSTVGds",
  "title": "Beautiful New Caledonia",
  "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tkiOqSTVGds/hqdefault.jpg",
  "mime": "video/youtube",
  "rawData": {
    "type": "video",
    "thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tkiOqSTVGds/hqdefault.jpg",
    "thumbnail_width": 480,
    "html": "<iframe width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/tkiOqSTVGds?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen></iframe>",
    "version": "1.0",
    "width": 480,
    "author_url": "https://www.youtube.com/user/lilomoino",
    "provider_name": "YouTube",
    "thumbnail_height": 360,
    "height": 270,
    "author_name": "LilO Moino",
    "provider_url": "https://www.youtube.com/",
    "title": "Beautiful New Caledonia"
  }
}

Note: because of how the field API is working at the moment, the data returned from your endpoint will be a string and not a JSON object. You'll just have to parse the data in your front (JSON.parse(article.oembed)).

Supported third party sites

• Youtube
• Vimeo
• Soundcloud

Feel free to submit a PR with the site you want, you just have to edit this file: services/oembed.js.

TODO

• Save the data in a table when we'll have more control over the field API