Embedding Scribd Documents

[Saeed]

Hi everyone.

I wanted to add the ability for the members on my forum to embed Scribd Documents.

1. This could either be done by adding it as a new BB Code Media, as can be seen to be done on the IGN Board here.

Embeds media from approved sites into your message. It is recommended that you use the media button in the editor tool bar. Approved sites: CollegeHumor; Dailymotion; ESPN; Facebook; Flickr; GameSpot; GameTrailers; github; IGN; Liveleak; Metacafe; Scribd; Twitter; TwitVid; Vimeo; YouTube;

2. The second option is to use Custom BB Code Manager by King Kovifor. I've been trying this, but somehow can't seem to get a good enough result, mainly with autowidth.

I'd love to have the first method enabled, since it's easier for members, but a custom BB Code would be fine as well. Would anyone be very kind to help me out with this?

 

[Jake Bunce]

Admin CP -> Home -> BB Code Media Sites -> Add BB Code Media Site

Media Site ID: scribd

Site Title: Scribd

Site URL: http://www.scribd.com/

Match URLs:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/{$id}/

Embed HTML:

<iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/{$id}/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-mbe672hh9vrhgq74719" data-auto-height="true" data-aspect-ratio="0.666666666666667" scrolling="no" id="doc_87468" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe>

URLs tested:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/90051366/Zappos-com-CEO-Tony-Hsieh-on-Changing-Business-as-Usual
http://www.scribd.com/doc/90924585/The-Dark-Monk-Excerpt-by-Oliver-Potzsch

If you are manually typing the code into your post then use this:

[media=scribd]90924585[/media]

 

[Saeed]

Admin CP -> Home -> BB Code Media Sites -> Add BB Code Media Site

Media Site ID: scribd

Site Title: Scribd

Site URL: http://www.scribd.com/

Match URLs:

asdfasd

Embed HTML:

<iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/{$id}/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-mbe672hh9vrhgq74719" data-auto-height="true" data-aspect-ratio="0.666666666666667" scrolling="no" id="doc_87468" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe>

URLs tested:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/90051366/Zappos-com-CEO-Tony-Hsieh-on-Changing-Business-as-Usual
http://www.scribd.com/doc/90924585/The-Dark-Monk-Excerpt-by-Oliver-Potzsch

If you are manually typing the code into your post then use this:

[media=scribd]90924585[/media]

Thank you very much for this, Jake.

I kept trying working on this, and this is what I came up with. Apparently, there is another format for documents as well. e.g.

http://www.scribd.com/username/d/61936093-Aks-Episode-1

So this is what I was using (in blue)...

Media Site ID: scribd

Site Title: Scribd

Site URL: http://www.scribd.com/

Match URLs:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/{$id}/
http://www.scribd.com/*/d/{$id:digits}

Embed HTML:

<iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/{$id}/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-2lh4nqcawtxot02q2lwh" data-auto-height="true" data-aspect-ratio="0.640167364016736" scrolling="no" id="doc_75039" width="600" height="800" frameborder="0"></iframe>

I was a bit stumped with the key given in the HTML too (key-2lh4nqcawtxot02q2lwh). I thought it was unique, but apparently it isn't.

And the width="100%" wasn't working for me. I'm using Firefox. Was it working for you?

Could we perhaps combine these two together to come up with one single BB Code Media?

 

[Jake Bunce]

Simply adding the second line to Match URLs works:

Match URLs:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/{$id}/
http://www.scribd.com/*/d/{$id:digits}

And I am using Firefox. Both formats of URL work for me when I add the second Match URLs line.

 

[Saeed]

They sure do, Jake.

My problem was with the width="100%" in the Embed HTML. For some weird reason, when I use 100%, it shows an extremely small version of it. If I use width="600", it works fine, as I pasted in my Embed HTML above.

Does the same happen on your side too?

 

[Saeed]

Ok, not sure why or how, but it seems to be working perfect now.

Thanks a TON, Jake. Your help is always appreciated.