I've been able to embed my latest 10 Tumblr posts into a website, but it doesn't include all of the functionality (comments, re-blogs, shares, etc.) of Tumblr. I'm really looking to do that, but I can't find an answer on this anywhere.
I know a lot of programming languages, so I'll take a solution in any language. The website IS a built-from-scratch website, so a Wordpress plugin won't help.
EDIT: Just to confirm (based on comments/questions below), we've followed the API documentation. We've got plenty of APIs working, but this one doesn't. We've tried gems, a Javascript version, the API with oauth and tokens, and more attempts than I can recall.
It's easy to do in Wordpress, and if we were doing it as a subdomain of a site, that would be possible. But the client (pro-bono) wants it embedded on a page that does lots of other things. Maybe there's a Javascript library we don't know about? Some other secret means of doing it? But the API (at least with available documentation) isn't working. Heck, even if you could direct us to a site where someone is using Tumblr embedded on a non-Wordpress/Tumblr website, that would be helpful. We could inspect the code.
We've got Twitter, Google Maps, and plenty of other APIs working. I swear we aren't idiots, and the answer to this isn't as easy as it appears.
THANKS!
If you want a clear example on how to use the JSON, check this link, it helped me tons:
http://janzheng.com/2013/06/tumblr_integration.html
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I'm building an application where users post their tips on various topics on my website. From my website I want to be able to post the best write-up on twitter with a single click from my website.
Are there any tutorials that show how to implement this. Thanks
Your question is giving little to no information on what technologies you use. E.g. is it a plain HTML website, are you using a web framework? Did you try anything yourself already?
Automated tweet posting can be done with Twitter's own API, which has various libraries in various languages to help you achieve what you want. Those libraries can be found here.
If you need help, please provide more information on what you're working with.
I have been spending my past week on the Internet to find at least one hint about it. There are no tutorials or even SO questions available. What I am trying to find is that when some website uses some library like oEmbed to embed content of other websites on their website, they fetch embed code from its link. For example, when you post a YouTube link on Facebook or other social networks, they automatically fetch their embed code. I know how to fetch embed code but what I don't know is how to provide embed code that can be fetched by other websites by using a link of my website's content?
I want that my article should be embedded in some special way. Not like the default layout of that website. So is there any META tag or something in HTML where I can put embed code for other websites?
I don't think what you want is possible. You can use special meta-tags that specific sites (e.g.: Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin) will interpret, and that will help you customize the share a little (still using the "host site" style). But as far as I know, there's nothing you can do to provide style/code of your own.
And it makes sense from a security point of view: embedding external code from an unknown source is potentially dangerous and no site would/should allow you to do it. Even if they do allow it, they should pre-process the code and sanitize it (adapting your style/code to their style/code) to prevent possible threats.
As suggested by Alvaro Montoro, I searched on the Internet about how to become an oembed provider. Following are the links I found:
https://timnash.co.uk/becoming-oembed-provider/
http://freear.org.uk/content/5-steps-being-oembed-provider
You may want to use the CSS !important directive.
http://css-tricks.com/when-using-important-is-the-right-choice/
I have seen this extension in some urls and I would like to know what they are used for.
It seems odd, but I couldn't find any information about them. I think they are specific for some plug-in.
It seems to be connected to 'Share This'-buttons on the websites.
I found this page which gives a quite comprehensive explanation:
This tag is mainly developed for tracking the URL sharing on various Social Networks, so every time anyone copies your blog content there he gets the URL ending with #sthash and extension with .dpuf or .dpbs
I am looking to develop a cross browser extension (plugin) and am having troubles getting answers to a few questions. So just looking for some simple answers if what I would like to do is possible. Thanks. I am currently looking at using Crossrider but would use whatever.
How do some extensions add a menu to the right click button. For example, when I right click in Chrome I see Evernote Web Clipper and Adblock options in the dropdown). How do they do that?
Could I embed a youtube player, for example. So when it's closed the audio still plays but when clicked you can see the video and what not?
For sites like Grooveshark. Could they have a plugin that when clicked you could change the song or stop the music, etc. So basically communicate with a website in your tab from the plugin?
Thanks. I just found Crossrider and it looks like some may be possible but havn't explored it too in depth yet. Kind of wondering if anyone has tried doing these things and if possible.
Google has a specific API for adding context menus. You can read about it here. Just be sure to request permissions for context menus in the manifest.json file and then you can add everything else to your background JavaScript file.
I don't think it's exactly possible to embed a YouTube player into the extension directly. Google Chrome will not allow for running inline scripts, which are clearly required to run YouTube within a popup page (or anything else, for that matter).
As for your third question, you would have to check into the individual APIs for any sites that you want to run the extension with. Every site is going to be a little bit different and my first instinct is that most sites are not going to allow for directly adding their player to the extension.
I would strongly suggest checking out the information about developing Google Chrome extensions available on Google Code. They provide a great tutorial and reference for the basics of developing extensions.
I want to find the number of pages of a website. Usually what I look for is a sitemap but I just encountered a site which does not have a sitemap so I am out of ideas of how to find its total pages. I tried to Google the URL but that did not helped much. Is there any other way we can find out the pages of a website?
Thanks in advance.
Ask Google "site:yourdomain.com"
This gives you all indexed pages.
Or use the free tool "Xenu". It crawls the whole site. But it won't find sites which have no internal links pointing to them. You can also export a sitemap with it.
I was about to suggest the same thing :) If this is a website you own, you can also add it to the Google Webmaster tools. It will show you lots of things about your site including number of links, pages, search terms, etc Its very useful and is free of charge.
I have found a better solution myself. You can go to Google Advanced Search and restrict the search results to your domain name. Leave everything else empty. It would give you the list of all pages cached by Google.
You could also try A1 Website Analyzer. But for all link checker software, you will have to make sure you configure them correctly to obey/not-obey (whatever your needs are) e.g robots.txt, noindex and nofollow instructions. (Common source for confusion in my experience.)