FieldtypeOembed by Neue Rituale

Collect and store oEmbed data


Store, collect and update oembed data from external sources. This module uses the great PHP Library Essence by Félix Girault and adds some processwire magic. It is inspired by Ryan's example module FieldtypeEvents and the TextformatterOEmbed module by felixwahner. Thanks!


  • Simple embedding of content via oembed endpoints and opengraph crawling
  • Backend preview
  • Searching in oembed data with $pages->find()
  • Autoupdate with lazycron
  • Support for ProcessGraphQL with the additional module GraphQLFieldtypeOembed
  • Filter result with hooks

  1. Copy the files for this module to /site/modules/FieldtypeOembed/
  2. Execute the following command in the /site/modules/FieldtypeOembed/ directory.
    composer install
  3. In admin: Modules > Refresh. Install Fieldtype > Oembed.
  4. Create a new field of type Oembed, and name it whatever you would like. In our examples we named it simply "embed".
  5. Add the field to a template and edit a page using that template. Enter a (embed)-url in the field and save the page.

  1. Execute the following command in your website root directory.
    composer require nr/fieldtypeoembed

Modules > Configure > FieldtypeOembed

Set up the Lazycron schedule. The cache expiration is configurable in the field settings.

Lazycron

You can configure your own Oembed or OpenGraph providers for Essence.
How to add custom providers (Essence Git)

{
   "getty": {
      "class": "OEmbed",
      "filter": "~gty\\.im/.+~i",
      "endpoint": "http://embed.gettyimages.com/oembed?url=:url"
   },
   "neuerituale": {
      "class": "OpenGraph",
      "filter": "~neuerituale\\.com.?~i"
   },
   "tiktok": {
      "class": "OEmbed",
      "filter": "~tiktok\\.com/.+~i",
      "endpoint": "https://www.tiktok.com/oembed?url=:url"
   },
   "InstagramOEmbed": {
      "class": "OEmbed",
      "filter": "~instagr(\\.am|am\\.com)/p/.+~i",
      "endpoint": "http://api.instagram.com/oembed?format=json&url=:url&hidecaption=true"
   },
}
{
	"23hq": false,
	"500px": false,
	"Animoto": false,
	"Aol": false,
	"App.net": false,
	"Bambuser": false,
	"Bandcamp": false,
	"Blip.tv": false,
	"Cacoo": false,
	"CanalPlus": false,
	"Chirb.it": false,
	"CircuitLab": false,
	"Clikthrough": false,
	"CollegeHumorOEmbed": false,
	"CollegeHumorOpenGraph": false,
	"Coub": false,
	"CrowdRanking": false,
	"DailyMile": false,
	"Dailymotion": false,
	"Deviantart": false,
	"Dipity": false,
	"Documentcloud": false,
	"Dotsub": false,
	"EdocrOEmbed": false,
	"EdocrTwitterCards": false,
	"FacebookPost": false,
	"FlickrOEmbed": false,
	"FlickrOpenGraph": false,
	"FunnyOrDie": false,
	"Gist": false,
	"Gmep": false,
	"HowCast": false,
	"Huffduffer": false,
	"Hulu": false,
	"Ifixit": false,
	"Ifttt": false,
	"Imgur": false,
	"InstagramOEmbed": false,
	"InstagramOpenGraph": false,
	"Jest": false,
	"Justin": false,
	"Kickstarter": false,
	"Meetup": false,
	"Mixcloud": false,
	"Mobypicture": false,
	"Nfb": false,
	"Official.fm": false,
	"Polldaddy": false,
	"PollEverywhere": false,
	"Prezi": false,
	"Qik": false,
	"Rdio": false,
	"Revision3": false,
	"Roomshare": false,
	"Sapo": false,
	"Screenr": false,
	"Scribd": false,
	"Shoudio": false,
	"Sketchfab": false,
	"SlideShare": false,
	"SoundCloud": false,
	"SpeakerDeck": false,
	"Spotify": false,
	"TedOEmbed": false,
	"TedOpenGraph": false,
	"Twitter": false,
	"Ustream": false,
	"Vhx": false,
	"Viddler": false,
	"Videojug": false,
	"Vimeo": false,
	"Vine": false,
	"Wistia": false,
	"WordPress": false,
	"Yfrog": false,
	"Youtube": false,
	"FacebookVideo": false
}

Fields > embed > Details The FieldtypeOembed extends the FieldtypeURL (core). In addition to these settings, you can also set the cache time for the oembed data. The lazycron will update the data.

Fieldsettings

Fieldpreview


/** @var \ProcessWire\Oembed */
$page->embed
/** @var boolean **/
$page->embed->empty
/** @var string return the html from oembed result */
"$page->embed"
$page->embed->html

If you want to filter or change the results of the oembed provider, use the hookable methods e.g. ___filterProps().

In this example we want to get the high resolution version of the thumbnail of a YouTube video.

// some where in your ready.php
// Replace hqdefault preview thumbnail with maxresdefault

$this->addHook('FieldtypeOembed::filterProps', function (HookEvent $event) {
   $propsArray = $event->arguments(0);
   if(is_array($propsArray) && $propsArray['providerName'] === 'YouTube') {
      $maxResultUrl = str_replace('/hqdefault.jpg', '/maxresdefault.jpg', $propsArray['thumbnailUrl']);
      // test max result url
      if((new WireHttp())->status($maxResultUrl) === 200) $propsArray['thumbnailUrl'] = $maxResultUrl;
      $event->return = $propsArray;
   }
});

// print_r($page->embed);

ProcessWire\Oembed Object
(
    [data] => Array
        (
            [empty] => false
            [url] => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
            [html] => '...'
            [type] => video
            [title] => Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Video)
            [width] => 200
            [height] => 113
            [version] => 1.0
            [authorUrl] => https://www.youtube.com/user/RickAstleyVEVO
            [authorName] => RickAstleyVEVO
            [providerUrl] => https://www.youtube.com/
            [providerName] => YouTube
            [thumbnailUrl] => https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/hqdefault.jpg
            [thumbnailWidth] => 480
            [thumbnailHeight] => 360
        )
)

You can query the oembed result fields

$pages->find('embed.providerName=YouTube');
$pages->find('embed.width>=200');

You can query this field over ProcessGraphQL.
Please install the additional module GraphQLFieldtypeOembed.

myfield {
   empty: Boolean
   title: String
   authorName: String
   authorUrl: String
   type: String
   height: Int
   width: Int
   providerName: String
   providerUrl: String
   thumbnailHeight: Int
   thumbnailWidth: Int
   thumbnailUrl: String
   html: String
   url: String
}

  • Remove extend urlfield!
  • remove _oembed helper construct (dirty)

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