Lack of interest Suggestion: A way of bypassing auto-embedding of URLs

[Kevin]

Below are three lines of text that were entered into a post....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OOy-7y5x8y0

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OOy-7y5x8y0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OOy-7y5x8y0[/url]

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OOy-7y5x8y0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OOy-7y5x8y0 [/url]​

Notice on the 3rd line there is a space before the closing URL tag; that is the only difference between the 2nd & 3rd line. On my test site I have auto-embedding turned on.

The results I was expecting is that the first line would auto-embed as a YouTube video and that the second & third lines would not auto-embed since I was wrapping them explicitly inside of manual URL tags.

The results that I got were that the 1st & 2nd line both got auto-embedded while the 3rd line was just a link as expected.

I was trying to use the URL tags in this fashion so that I could link to a YouTube video as a link showing the full URL but not have it auto-embed itself.

Suggestion is have a way of bypassing auto-embedding URLs as needed/wanted. Perhaps a 'noembed' tag along the lines of the 'plain' tag?

 

[Mike]

Basically auto-embedding will never happen if the URL is different from the text of the link, hence why #3 doesn't embed.

We can't really disable it for #2 because it's very easy to get links added for your automatically. (It was like this initially and it missed a lot legitimate attempts to embed.)

 

[Kevin]

Basically auto-embedding will never happen if the URL is different from the text of the link, hence why #3 doesn't embed.

We can't really disable it for #2 because it's very easy to get links added for your automatically. (It was like this initially and it missed a lot legitimate attempts to embed.)

How about a 'noembed' wrapper tag? Going forward I know personally I can cheat by just putting a space at the end of the link but it might be easier if there was controlling it.

 

[Digital Doctor]

If someone puts URL tags on a link ... it shows they don't want it embedded.

I got this to work.

Post a URL from the Windows clipboard to the post (as below)
ht tp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OOy-7y5x8y0
add a space to the end.
ht tp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OOy-7y5x8y0
highlight everything *and the space*. Post the URL (without the space) as the link.

Test 2:

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Test3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OOy-7y5x8y0

 

[Digital Doctor]

Test 2 worked fine until I posted the same test, Test3 !
weird !

 

[Digital Doctor]

Test 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OOy-7y5x8y0

 

[Digital Doctor]

Test 5:

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Test 6: (Note: Test 5 worked previously).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OOy-7y5x8y0

Let's see if Test 5 stops working.

EDIT - Yep it did. Interesting.

I'll try it with a different youtube link.

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EDIT - it only works if you use the same URL.

Test 8:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs7kix6_8Ks

 

[Digital Doctor]

Kevin: just make sure the youtube URL is just the URL and the text of the post is the URL plus one trailing space.
Worked for me.
Except when I posted the same link again !
Then it embedded the first link, but not the second !