embetty

Embetty displays remote content like tweets or videos without compromising your privacy.

See it in action on our demo pages.

Quick Start

1. Setup your embetty-server.
2. Include the embetty lib into your HTML document.
3. Insert an embed by using a custom tag (see embeds section below).

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta data-embetty-server="/path/to/embetty-server" />
    <script async src="embetty.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <embetty-tweet status="1166685910030790662"></embetty-tweet>
  </body>
</html>

Documentation

Configure the Embetty server

Embetty needs a server component that you need to run on your infrastructure. Configure the server URL for embetty using a <meta data-embetty-server> tag:

<head>
  <meta data-embetty-server="/path/to/embetty-server" />
</head>

Including embetty.js

There are three options.

1. Download an Embetty archive from the releases page. Make embetty.js available on your site.
2. Use Embetty in your npm project: yarn add @embetty/component or npm install @embetty/component --save. Then import embetty into your main script (i.e. import '@embetty/component').
3. Clone this repository and build ./dist/embetty.js:

   $ git clone https://github.com/heiseonline/embetty
   $ cd embetty
   $ yarn
   $ yarn build
   

Supported embed types

Currently, tweets and various video platforms are supported.

Tweet

Use the status attribute to embed a tweet with its tweet ID. Example:

<embetty-tweet status="950371792874557440"></embetty-tweet>

Use the include-thread attribute to include the thread above the tweet (i.e. the conversation so far, for context). Example:

<embetty-tweet status="950371792874557440" include-thread></embetty-tweet>

Video

Use the type attribute with a value of facebook, vimeo or youtube. Set the video-id attribute to the video ID.

<embetty-video type="facebook" video-id="10156049485672318"></embetty-video>

Use the poster-image attribute with an URL. This overwrites the preview image of the video.

<embetty-video
  type="facebook"
  video-id="10156049485672318"
  poster-image="www.test.com/image.jpg"
></embetty-video>

For videos of type vimeo or youtube, it's also possible to set a start-at attribute with a value of time in seconds to start the video at a specific timecode.

<embetty-video
  type="youtube"
  start-at="96"
  video-id="3L4fHrIJ3A4"
></embetty-video>
<embetty-video type="vimeo" start-at="96" video-id="223099532"></embetty-video>

Mastodon Status

Use the status attribute with the link of the corresponding status. Embetty will retrieve the data from the corresponding Mastodon instance.

<embetty-mastodon
  status="https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/110372412617177781"
></embetty-mastodon>

Events

Embetty triggers the following events:

Example code:

document.querySelector('embetty-tweet').addEventListener('initialized', function(e) { ... })

Testing

1. Clone this repository.
2. yarn
3. export the TWITTER_ tokens mentioned in https://github.com/heiseonline/embetty-server
4. yarn test

Caveats

The Embetty server component does not proxy video data. This means that the tracking protection becomes ineffective after the play button has been clicked.

License

Embetty is MIT licensed.