Onebox all the links!

The Reductress doesn’t seem to onebox properly:

The only thing about OpenGraph that really honks me off is the lack of a date field.

I have microformat markup all over my site, but not OpenGraph.

Sorry for the delay… The issue with thehill.com is that they don’t provide a description. Having a onebox with an image and a title would be pretty bad…

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The reductress was blocking the generic Ruby language default user agent for http get requests. We switched to a custom Discourse user agent (more correct and more informative) and now it works. Good find!

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Any other recent onebox issues? Anyone? Class? Bueller? Bueller?

Possibly:

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This one failed to onebox - probably amp getting in the way

AMP is the worst. I like Google and they generally have good ideas, but this one is a disaster. Good cause, completely the wrong solution.

Using the proper non-AMP link works:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jun/16/most-of-central-london-hospital-to-be-sold-off-secret-plans-reveal

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Another one:

Oddly enough, if I post after leaving just the link it won’t onebox. But if I type anything else, even   after the link, it does onebox. That’s weird.

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See, the same link, without follow-up:

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Probably just a caching issue.

I think you’re right. Both links work now, even though they didn’t earlier. Sorry!

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Hmm. Well, it’s a start.

Radiolab links:

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I think they are doing some invalid stuff there

http://iframely.com/debug?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiolab.org%2Fstory%2Feye-sky%2F

og:video coming back as a SWF file is super dodgy.

Neither of these are Oneboxing, and they’re kinda important at the moment:

http://blacklivesmatter.com

https://www.redneckrevolt.org

Why? The URL tells you what you need to know. Oneboxing is more for summarizing articles, as in “check out this article in the Atlantic, man!” Not “check out what the Atlantic is, man!”

For example I don’t think anyone would expect microsoft.com to onebox? or the homepage of wikipedia?

At any rate you’d need to follow up with them and see if they have their opengraph / oEmbed tags set up. Did you enter them in http://iframely.com/debug and see what comes up? I get 403 forbidden on one of them.

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Just for presentation purposes; if, for example, I link both BLM and the DSA in one post, the Oneboxing of DSA makes the BLM link disappear in comparison. Like so:

http://blacklivesmatter.com/

If it’s fixable, great, if not, no worries.

So enter the links <like this> instead?

or type literally anything in front of them http://www.dsausa.org/

Okay, thanks.