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NEARLY 300 SUPPORTED SITES FOR VIDEOS, AUDIO, GAMES AND MORE!

This is the most current repository of definitions for DJ's AME :: The Ultimate Automatic Media Embedder. These media definitions will expand your AME to support embedding from hundreds of websites. More videos. More than videos. These definitions will let you embed content from sites that include games, widgets, music players and so much more.

This repository was seeded by contributions from the vBulletin community over several years, but are curated here for easy access. Special thanks to Hotwheels and Danyloski for starting the tradition.


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NEWS
DJ's AME 2.5.7 is out! What are you waitin' fer?!


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IMPORT
DEFINITIONS ARE NOT INSTALLED They're imported through your AME CP. Which means you have to have AME installed first. You DO NOT import definitions through your Product Manager. I mean, you can try. But I'll make fun of you.

The READ ME file explains in more detail. Please don't skip it. I named it in big letters and everything.


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VERSION INFO
These definitions are for AME 2.5.

A BETA set of definitions for AME 3 can be found here.


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LIVE DEMO
This is my development area with a lot of test thread. As such, it's not a comprehensive list of all working definitions. You can find that below...


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MEDIA DEFINITIONS LIST
The full list of definitions is available in the second post of this thread. Requests for new definitions should be made here (no registration required), rather than in this thread. It makes it easier for me to keep track and to prioritize. Please do not use this area to contact me.

The password is: LetMeIn#33

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SUPPORT
I can't stress this enough. I NEED LINKS in order to troubleshoot problems. Links to the video. Links to the thread. I can't do anything without knowing what videos are causing the problem. If all you do is post that a particular site is not working and provide me with nothing to look at, well, how can I fix it? Following this simple guideline will save us both a lot of time and effort. (And check the FAQ on the first page. I worked really hard on that one. :erm: )

Please note that I do new definition requests in the order they were received and as timely as I can.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by carsafety

This is a carryover moved to this thread on DJ's request. I'm finding that the Amazon definition only works for certain types of Amazon links. For example, if you search an item on Google and copy the hyperlink from the results, it usually works fine. That is generally because the link is relatively short, ending in the product ID number, and so the definitions parse and append the affiliate tag ?tag=yourtag-20 correctly.

The problem is with other links, like those you often get from a search at Amazon.com. These results have longer URLs, usually containing a ? in them, like the phrase ?ie=UTF . If you append the affiliate tag above, like the one included in the definition, it does not validate. In this case, if you append the tag &tag=yourtag-20 it does validate.

You can't simply change to &tag, though, because it won't validate with the shorter Amazon URLs. Yes, if you do the URLs yourself, you can always get it to work, but the point is that you want it to automatically append a valid tag to any amazon link a member posts and you don't know what type of format it will have.

So far, my solution is to append the following tag to any type of Amazon URL:

?tag=yourtag-20&tag=yourtag-20

This seems kind of redundant, but so far it has validated in the Amazon link checker utility on all the tests I've tried, including when it gets redirected to a mobile site on a phone.

Anyone have a better definition than this common one posted by BirdOPrey5?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1405

Due to some bad record keeping (or lack thereof) I can't quite tell if I updated Amazon since the last posted update. Let me verify what your saying, though. Are you adding the tag to the URL your posting, or is this tag in the definition itself? If your using my Amazon defs, my old Amazon tag is still in there, so it would need to be edited. As I recall, if you don't take my tag out and try to use appended tags when posting, you run into that issue.

If not, can you give me some of the links in question you've run into problems with so I can test them. I know I worked on Amazon recently and made some significant changes to the RegEx, but I can't quite remember what that was due to the aforementioned poor record keeping.

[Black Tiger]

I already wiped them and reinstalled the ones from this thread yesterday, but you can do it again if you want.
I don't have any custom definitions installed, so go ahead.

The only custom definition is a youtube custom bbcode which was made last week, but that should not be of any influence. This will be removed when Ame is working again.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

I already wiped them and reinstalled the ones from this thread yesterday, but you can do it again if you want.
I don't have any custom definitions installed, so go ahead.

The only custom definition is a youtube custom bbcode which was made last week, but that should not be of any influence. This will be removed when Ame is working again.

Okay, you have something going on deeper than just a definitions issue. When I wiped your definitions set, the post still tried to convert. With no definitions. That's definitely not normal. I suspect something happened during your installation. What I suggest you try to do is reupload all the files again and reimport the product as if you were doing an upgrade. Delete the default definitions, then do a test post, with no definitions installed, and see if it still tries to convert. If so, you may need to uninstall and do a clean install.

[Black Tiger]

Hmmz... strange. The only thing I did the last time was an upgrade to the new version.
I will try your suggestions again sometime this evening and keep you informed. Thanks for the help!

[carsafety]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Due to some bad record keeping (or lack thereof) I can't quite tell if I updated Amazon since the last posted update. Let me verify what your saying, though. Are you adding the tag to the URL your posting, or is this tag in the definition itself? If your using my Amazon defs, my old Amazon tag is still in there, so it would need to be edited. As I recall, if you don't take my tag out and try to use appended tags when posting, you run into that issue.

If not, can you give me some of the links in question you've run into problems with so I can test them. I know I worked on Amazon recently and made some significant changes to the RegEx, but I can't quite remember what that was due to the aforementioned poor record keeping.

I am using the same definition as BirdOPrey posted in that link that I think is the same as yours (unless you updated since my last download), except, of course, I substitiuted my affiliate tag in the replacement box.

So, for example, the AME replacement validates fine for me with this link found via Google searching for "nuclear duct tape"

http://www.amazon.com/3M-8979N-Perfo.../dp/B000NG3ZKI

It does not validate if I copy the same search results from Amazon and get this URL:

http://www.amazon.com/3M-8979N-Perfo...1492788&sr=8-5

Now, if I change the replacement definition from ?tag=affiliate-20 to ?tag=affilliate-20&tag=affiliate-20 then it works in both cases, though it seems like there could be a better way.

I hope that all made sense. I'm not an expert with how AME works or the definitions, just seeking the optimal way to do Amazon affiliate codes;-)

Edit- Verified my definition is exactly the same as the one in the current download, except I'm using the "double" replacement tag above now. Prior to that it was identical except that I used my tag instead of yours in the replacement area.

[Gamelobby]

Any word on EA Sports World.?

[Black Tiger]

@DJ - I got it fixed.
The update method (reuploading files and re-importing/overwriting xml file) did not fix the problem.
I had to really uninstall Ame 2.5.6. After that, I reinstalled 2.5.6, removed the standard definitions and imported these here.
After that everything worked again with new posts. With old posts I have to use the edit and save button for the movie window to appear.

I presume I can only fix old post by editting and saving?

[M.C.]

can you please tell me - does that AME parse inside forumlinks into titles links? or it was done by other hack? why I ask it? becouse when I update for new definitions all my forumlinks become just links instead of title-links?

Examples? Before update was:
vBulletin.org Forum

After update it turned into: http://vbulletin.org

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by M.C.

can you please tell me - does that AME parse inside forumlinks into titles links? or it was done by other hack? why I ask it? becouse when I update for new definitions all my forumlinks become just links instead of title-links?

Examples? Before update was:
vBulletin.org Forum

After update it turned into: http://vbulletin.org

Best I could tell "Local Links" used to be included but they aren't in the latest definition anymore. I don't know why, may have been causing errors. But if you had an old version that's probably what was doing it.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by carsafety

I am using the same definition as BirdOPrey posted in that link that I think is the same as yours (unless you updated since my last download), except, of course, I substitiuted my affiliate tag in the replacement box.

So, for example, the AME replacement validates fine for me with this link found via Google searching for "nuclear duct tape"

http://www.amazon.com/3M-8979N-Perfo.../dp/B000NG3ZKI

It does not validate if I copy the same search results from Amazon and get this URL:

http://www.amazon.com/3M-8979N-Perfo...1492788&sr=8-5

Now, if I change the replacement definition from ?tag=affiliate-20 to ?tag=affilliate-20&tag=affiliate-20 then it works in both cases, though it seems like there could be a better way.

I hope that all made sense. I'm not an expert with how AME works or the definitions, just seeking the optimal way to do Amazon affiliate codes;-)

Edit- Verified my definition is exactly the same as the one in the current download, except I'm using the "double" replacement tag above now. Prior to that it was identical except that I used my tag instead of yours in the replacement area.

I haven't logged into Amazon in a while, since they closed all North Carolina accounts, but I'm wondering if the Link Checker is giving a false positive here. It seems to be looking at everything after the first question mark and checking it against your ID. For thumbnails, I tried a few things, but everything nerfs the ability to pull the correct image. I think I may be able to fix it for basic linking, but there's a possibility that you'll occasionally get the wrong URL.

This works on the basis of adding cookies to the user's computer, right? Is there a way to check for these and rather then validate against the Link Checker, validate against whether the cookie was added to a computer or not? Say, from a computer that hasn't visited an Amazon link with your ID.

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Any word on EA Sports World.?

Have a look at the AME requests forum.

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

@DJ - I got it fixed.
The update method (reuploading files and re-importing/overwriting xml file) did not fix the problem.
I had to really uninstall Ame 2.5.6. After that, I reinstalled 2.5.6, removed the standard definitions and imported these here.
After that everything worked again with new posts. With old posts I have to use the edit and save button for the movie window to appear.

I presume I can only fix old post by editting and saving?

Unfortunately, yes. Posts that were using your temporary BBCode, however, can be changed in the AME CP's Tools menu. That was a very unusual error, but I could tell something was wrong when I cleaned out the defs and the product kept trying to convert it. It's like a definition got "stuck". Hope that corrects your issues.

Originally Posted by M.C.

can you please tell me - does that AME parse inside forumlinks into titles links? or it was done by other hack? why I ask it? becouse when I update for new definitions all my forumlinks become just links instead of title-links?

Examples? Before update was:
vBulletin.org Forum

After update it turned into: http://vbulletin.org

I mentioned this during a previous update, but I had to drop ***Internal Linking for the time being, as it had a lot of problems. I'm developing a new set called vBulletin Linking, but that's still in the works and not completely bug free yet.