Gutenberg: Add Block: OpenGraph Link
We should have a block whose sole purpose it is to show a standardized OpenGraph box with site icon, title description and link. Kind of like what you see on this page: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FWordPress%2Fgutenberg
The block would be inserted as a placeholder, like the Embed block. When an arbitrary link is pasted in, the block crawls out and fetches the OG data and populates it.
It would be good to have this be a separate block to the Embed block, as you might want to opengraph link to a youtube video without embedding it.
jasmussen
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CC: @iseulde as I know you're working on oembeds right now (#1033 ), and would love your thoughts and feedback on this idea.
When using oEmbed, you paste a URL on a blank line and press enter. This converts it to an embed. Cool.
What if, when you paste an unrecognized URL — something that's not on the oEmbed whitelist — we crawl out and fetch opengraph data and get an "OpenGraph Card" like the following:
Wouldn't that be cool?
This could be in addition to an explicit OG block as ticketed here.
jasmussen
on 4 Aug 2017
So then a URL on a line will always convert to something? I guess this will all have to go through the same endpoint, which would first try to embed with oEmbed, then fall back to OpenGraph, then maybe plain document title, favicon, etc.
ellatrix
on 4 Aug 2017
In other words, this would still be part of the general embed block, just doesn't have a sub type registered.
ellatrix
on 4 Aug 2017
Or we need something different for pasting URL, as there we don't know what type the user wants, so we need to do oEmbed => OpenGraph => fallback?
ellatrix
on 4 Aug 2017
oEmbed => OpenGraph => fallback
That _sounds_ right to me. Or perhaps this:
oEmbed => OpenGraph => plain hyperlink
What do you think?
jasmussen
on 4 Aug 2017
Yeah, maybe, we can try.
ellatrix
on 4 Aug 2017
As the project moves towards merge proposal, we are moving issues that aren't needed for that to projects. This doesn't mean they won't get done, they totally can and that's why we're moving to projects. This allows us to focus on the issues that have to happen to Gutenberg. I am closing this but it will live in projects.
karmatosed
on 7 Nov 2017
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CC: @iseulde as I know you're working on oembeds right now (#1033 ), and would love your thoughts and feedback on this idea.
When using oEmbed, you paste a URL on a blank line and press enter. This converts it to an embed. Cool.
What if, when you paste an unrecognized URL — something that's not on the oEmbed whitelist — we crawl out and fetch opengraph data and get an "OpenGraph Card" like the following:
Wouldn't that be cool?
This could be in addition to an explicit OG block as ticketed here.