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embedly extension

This is a sphinx extension for using Embedly.

This extension enables you to embed anything that is supported by Embedly , e.g.:

.. embedly:: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_eYSuPKP3Y

Installation

pip install sphinxcontrib-embedly

Configuration

Sphinx

To enable this extension in Sphinx, add sphinxcontrib.embedly module to the extensions option in the conf.py file.

import os, sys

# Path to the folder where sphinxcontrib/embedly.py is
# NOTE: not needed if the package is installed in traditional way
# using setup.py, easy_install or pip
sys.path.append(os.path.abspath('/path/to/sphinxcontrib.embedly'))

# Enabled extensions
extensions = ['sphinxcontrib.embedly']

Docutils

In case you use pure docutils projects such as Pelican feel free to add the following somewhere to your code:

from sphinxcontrib.embedly import setup_docutils
setup_docutils()

embedly_key

Then set the required configuration variable embedly_key in your conf.py by signing up for for the free account on Embedly for the Embed product. E.g.:

embedly_key = '<api-key-copied-from-your-account-page>'

embedly_timeout

There is also one optional configuration variable, the embedly_timeout that specifies the default timeout used when fetching the embed code from Embedly (defaults to 60 seconds). E.g.:

embedly_timeout = 120

Usage

This directive fetches the embed code for the given URL and adds it into the generated document.

Examples:

.. embedly:: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_eYSuPKP3Y

You can specify various options for the embedding as seen above.

Example:

.. embedly:: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_eYSuPKP3Y
   :width: 450
   :autoplay:
   :frame:

Options

maxwidth:the maximum width of the embed in pixels (optional)
maxheight:the maximum height of the embed in pixels (optional)
width:the scaled width of rich and video embeds in pixels (optional)
wmode:the "wmode" parameter to flash objects, options are "window", "opaque" and "transparent" (optional)
nostyle:boolean when given removes inline style elements from certain embeds to be able to style them yourself (optional)
autoplay:boolean when given tells the video and rich embeds to automatically play when the media is loaded (optional)
videosrc:boolean when given uses the video_src meta or Open Graph tag to create a video object to embed (optional, defaults to 50)
words:integer value of words to be returned as the description, as the closest sentence to that word count (optional)
chars:integer value of characters after which the description is blindly truncated and added "..." (optional)
frame:boolean when given will wrap all embeds in iframes to help prevent XSS attacks (optional, available in the paid products)
secure:boolean when given will serve embeds with a SSL connection (optional, available in the paid products)

Changelog

v0.2 (2014-02-23)

v0.1 (2013-12-30)

  • Initial release.

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