Onebox all the links!

Another onebox issue:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/3021

Just tried to paste this link in, and it failed.

https://thescene.com/watch/gq/if-trump-can-t-act-like-a-president-he-could-at-least-dress-like-one?source=player_scene_logo

It looked fine in preview, but the post just had a blank area with nothing in it. As below.

Even tried stripping the text in the url after the ? and it didnā€™t make a difference.

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Erm I see something in that ā€œblank spaceā€

Ah. Ok. I disabled my adblocker because I thought that might have something to do with it, but it didnā€™t. So I looked around looked for something else that might make me a special snowflake, and saw that I have third-party cookies disabled. I temporarily re-enabled them, and now it shows up.

Carry on.

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What happened with links to BBS? They seem to be b0rked since the site was in read-only mode earlier.

They show up in the preview window fine, but not in the final post.

ETA: @beschizza

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Letā€™s see

Looks fine to me? Oh wait you are correct.

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Poof. Looks like it just got toggled back.

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Not sure why itā€™s not working here.

Related issue? I posted (a bunch) of Twitter links, all with either GIF images or short YT videos embedded (of Our Pal Richard Spencer being punched to music, if youā€™re wondering why) and some of them are auto-playing. Is there a way to post a link so that it will stop autoplay? Sadly, I expect that fix to be exclusive for each domainā€™s linkā€¦but Iā€™m hoping for a one-shot solution.

Not sure why, but Onebox refuses to work on any link to The Hill website, even adding a ā€˜www.ā€™ at the beginning of the url doesnā€™t seem to help.

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Sure @zogstrip can have a look.

The first port of call, as always, is http://iframely.com/debug

I think the problem in the specific case of thehill.com is that there is no text excerpt / summary.

This is perhaps the least important Onebox issue ever, but Talk To Aliens In Real Time doesnā€™t show any preview:
https://www.ttairt.com/display.php?show=7B9737HM

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Hereā€™s a neat trick. Over here I was trying to post

http://wondermark.com/c/2007-11-27-357parking.gif http://wondermark.com/357

The image previewed all right, but then when I tried to add the link and the Onebox appeared, the image suddenly shrunk to the size of the preview in the Onebox.

The Reductress doesnā€™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 delayā€¦ The issue with thehill.com is that they donā€™t provide a description. Having a onebox with an image and a title would be pretty badā€¦

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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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