jekyll-oembed

oEmbed plugin for jekyll that creates an oembed liquid tag

Installation

With bundler

Within your project's Gemfile, add the following within the :jekyll_plugins group:

# Gemfile
group :jekyll_plugins do
  gem 'jekyll_oembed'
end

Standalone

Add the code directly to your _plugins directory Create the following plugin in your projects _plugins directory.

If you do this, you will also need to add ruby-oembed to your Gemfile

# Gemfile
gem "ruby-oembed"

Usage

To use an oembed, simply do the following. Pass the embedded url as plain text, not wrapped in quotes like a string.

  # Correct
  {% oembed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPUaUgjbbsA %}

  # Incorrect
  {% oembed "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPUaUgjbbsA" %}

jekyll_oembed does not support customizing width, height, or adding any attributes directly to the embedded HTML.

Limitations

Protected URLs: some URLs are private. If this is the case, oembed may not function properly

Attribution

Thank you to:

This will automatically require all of the gems specified in your Gemfile.

Resources

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request
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