Perhaps specific to Twitter onebox then?
If I may: what say we take a look at this?
https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/microwave-oven-diagnostics-with-indian-snack-food/
iFramely says thereās oEmbed data, but itās not oneboxing.
ETA: Found another one.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-mechanics-of-the-pull-up-and-why-women-can-absolutely-do-them/
ETA2: One more?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3255226/
Make sure they have a valid text description, also some hosts will blacklist all crawl attempts from user-agents they donāt like. We see this a lot on WordPress installs hosted by WP-Engine, for example.
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Since a couple of days, maybe a week, links to The Register wonāt onebox anymore. They used to.
Example:
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Fixed!
Thanks!!!
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Archive.orgās radio plays seem to be clogging something:
Dimension X 50 04 15 With Folded Hands
Naked link:
In the preview, thereās a too large image, but nothing seems to show up after posting.
Well thatās odd @techAPJ can you take a quick look?
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I pushed a fix for this:
ā¦ but the onebox looks awful as itās just a tiny audio player that is taking up a lot of space because itās embedded via iframe and the CSS is not optimized. The same can be seen on Twitter Card validator:
Will look for a workaround and then bump onebox version.
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Anyone else having trouble Oneboxing stuff that used to Onebox, like NPR and HuffPo?
Yes, I just came here to report that.
HuffPo is completely broken ā Iāve tried numerous times to link to HP and it never works.
Example:
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I was wondering if itās related to huffpost redirecting to some ad crap (guce.advertising.com) thatās stopping it from oneboxing, i donāt even click huffpost links because iām not whitelisting whatever it wants to show me so i always get an immediate āserver not foundā page. NPR has that data protection pageā¦
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i saw people using iframely to check oneboxing above. huffpo seems to work okay there. at first glance, nothing special listed in its debug mode either
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@techAPJ could you take a look at this next week? ā
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I have a Onebox question. Itās about the display of the number-of-clicks that the link gets.
When I see a Onebox and I click on the blue title-line, and then I refresh the bbs topic page, it doesnāt display any number. Like so:
But when I click on the grey name of the site, and then refresh the bbs topic page, it displays a number showing that it got a click. Like so:
However, it appears to me that the link is the same for both the blue and the grey text. Is there a reason that one counts and the other doesnāt?
Users can get badges for posting popular links that get so many clicks. Shouldnāt they get credit for a click on either text, that goes to the same link? Or do they get credit somehow, and it just doesnāt display?
Am I missing or misunderstanding something?
I know itās not a big thing, Iāve just been curious about it for a while. Also, if I click on someoneās link, I want them to get credit for it 
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I deployed latest version here and that fixed this issue.
Testing:
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Thank you!
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Iām curious about the same thing.
When I am uninformed or only marginally interested in a topic, I sometimes use click count as a proxy measure of community engagement. In those instances, I am more likely to follow a link with a high click count since there is a good chance it will support multiple discussions.
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Yes! Me, too. Occasionally, though, Iām fooled by a high number of clicks, and the linked info is (IMO) boring or insubstantial. Then I wonder if everyone else felt a bit fooled too. (You win some and lose some, of course.)
A funny thing Iāve noticed (not just with Oneboxes, but any link here) is that a high number of clicks on a link often seems to correlate with a low number of Likes on the comment itself that contains the link (I have no statistics on thatāthatās just my own impression). So Iāve wondered if most people tend to click away from the bbs page to read the linked info, and never get back to the comment itself to give it a Like. So lately Iāve tried to make a habit ofāif I think that a link was worthwhile/interestingāpurposefully coming back to the comment itself to give it a Like.
I normally open links (anywhere I encounter them, not just on the bbs) in a new tab manually, but I donāt always do it. My success rate for getting back to a comment to give it a Like was improved when I changed my User settings here to automatically open all links in a new tab [Preferences>Interface>Other>Open all external links in a new tab]. Then when I close the linked page, the comment I went there from is for sure still up on my screen and I can easily give it a Like if I want to, before I move on.
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Are you clicking links in your own post? Those wonāt be counted. Otherwise Iām not sure I understand what youāre asking.
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Thanks for replying!
No, no.
Iāll try to explain what I mean again, making an example with post #118, just above, in this topic.
As I type this, it appears that no one has yet clicked in the Onebox of post #118. So, it looks like thisā
Okay, now Iāve clicked on the blue text (which is a link), and refreshed the page. It now looks like this (i.e., thereās no change, it doesnāt show that anyone clicked the link)ā
And now Iāve clicked on the grey text (which is a link), and refreshed the page. It now shows that someone has clicked the linkā
Butāitās the same URL, for either. They both go to the same place. Yet it seems that it doesnāt get counted if we happen to click on the blue text instead of the grey text to go there.
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