New Posting Features - Title Tag Grabber AND Video Embedding by MDawg for VB5

All New Version 3.0.2

This mod can do two things:

1. It can automatically grab the title of a page you are linking to
2. It can embed video URLs automatically



For example it will turn:

http://www.vbulletin.org

to

vBulletin.org Forum - The Official vBulletin Resource!

This is working on both the simple and complex style URL BBcodes, and it will ignore existing links if you have specified a custom title.

It can also turn a link like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEPV4kolz0 into an embedded video without use of the [video] BB Code.

In addition there is an option to auto embed old links that were previously embedded by the AME 2.x mod for vBulletin 3.x. If you still have [AME] BB Codes in your posts this mod can do its best to embed them like they used to be with AME.

Video Embedding is currently working with Youtube (both short and original URLs) and Vimeo.com videos.

The Mod should auto install, upload files as instructed in Readme (everything goes in the usual place.) Clear the system cache to see the mod work on existing posts.

If you wanted to undo the changes made by this mod simply delete the files/remove the mod/ and clear the cache. This mod does not alter the original posts, only the cached copies.

This is an update by Rhodium for the mod created by BirdOPrey5 - thanks to both!

The mod now works without the bugs mentioned in the prior version.

Please "Mark as Installed" if you use this.
Donations Always Appreciated. :up:
Consider nominating for MOTM if you like it!

[ss@solidsignal]

Seems to stop working with 5.6.9

[TheDigitalCouch]

This is working flawlessly in 5.6.9 for me.

[natasha78]

Originally Posted by ss@solidsignal

Seems to stop working with 5.6.9

same, broke after update.

[mdawg]

What exact issues are you seeing because it works fine pulling external titles fine posting URLs with title fine in 5.7.0 for me.

Screenshots?

[natasha78]

Originally Posted by mdawg

What exact issues are you seeing because it works fine pulling external titles fine posting URLs with title fine in 5.7.0 for me.

Screenshots?

I'm pasting a link into the post box and hitting enter and it displays as:



full disclosure im on 5.6.9 and havent updated to 5.7.0 yet.

nothing useful in apache logs.

[mdawg]

What do you have set in settings under
Text For Pages With No Title
is that box blank or does the word Link appear in there?




Also, go ahead and try different URLs see if any of them will pull the external title.

[mdawg]

Working with vb 5.7.2 Mod overrides the new "URL Previews" preview, and displays external title links and embeds video same as always. This Mod also pulls titles from internal title links too, while fb's "URL Previews" does nothing with forum internal URLs.

Note: when it comes to internal title URLs, if the Mod creates a link that indicates a "404 error" you will need to take this up with your host it has something to do with PHP-FPM and its settings.

This Mod may also trigger Mod Security rules that you may need to whitelist to prevent being locked out of your own site.

I have not tested what happens to old URLs or videos if you toggle the Mod on and off, because the Mod works fine so why tamper with it.