XF 1.5 How to add the BBC as a media provider?

[Member_68162]

How do I add the BBC news website as a media provider so I can add their videos to posts? I'm not interested in installing another add-on to do this.

 

[Paul B]

Do they offer an embed URL with a single parameter which can be extracted for the content?

 

[Member_68162]

Do they offer an embed URL with a single parameter which can be extracted for the content?

They offer a link for sharing that looks like this

http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/36002424

 

[Paul B]

That's just a regular URL - it wouldn't be possible to embed the media with that.

 

[Martok]

They offer a link for sharing that looks like this

http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/36002424

That's just a share link to the page.

The BBC apparently does make some video content available for embedding:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/7895116.stm

However most of it seems to not be embeddable (they tend to like you going to their sites and/or playing it in BBC iplayer).

 

[Member_68162]

Ah, that's too bad. Thanks for the replies @Brogan and @Martok

 

[Alpha1]

This addon supports some BBC media urls: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/s9e-media-bbcodes-pack.2476/
This includes url's like: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29232523

 

[Member_68162]

Thank you @Alfa1 . I was hoping that I wouldn't have to install an add-on, but I may end up doing it with the one you linked to.