Moodle plugins directory: oEmbed Filter

Hi Daemon - can you post some examples of the links you were using to help debug what might be going on? Thanks!

Hi, I'm trying to use this for embed soundcloud urls but it shows "Error while accessing the embedded media. Please try refreshing the page."
I've disabled and even tried uninstalling soundcloud filter but it won't work. Can you help?
Thank you

Sorry, to add to my previous question, this doesn't work if my soundcloud file is set to private so is there a work around for this? Thank you

It only doesn't work when the media is private? I would imagine that's probably a soundcloud privacy thing, to keep private media private. Are you seeing that for public media?

I've tried to submit this to the tracker, but it won't allow me until I find a similar, open issue and watch it. Unfortuantely, I can't find one... so here goes.

We've encountered an issue whereby if a user attempts to embed a secure, shortened URL for a YouTube video, the video embed errors.

Steps to reproduce:
* Enable YouTube embedding via oembed filter
* Disable YouTube embedding via default Media Embedding
* In a label or page add a link to a YouTube video using a shortened, secure URL (e.g. )

Expected behaviour: When page is saved and viewed, the video embeds into the page.

Actual behaviour: Message is displayed - "Error while accessing the embedded media. Please try refreshing the page."

Using Moodle 2.9.3 (over https) and plugin version 29.0.0.8

Bother - the URL was embedded in my comment. It was meant to provide an example of the type of URL we've tried to embed - i.e. https:// youtu.be/[video ID]

Could you guide me how you can circumvent oembed e.g. when you really want to display the YouTube URL but not embed the YouTube player?
Thanks a lot.

@Luca. There's an Atto plugin that you can use with the filter that provides that capability. You have to configure the filter to use the oembed div wrapper instead of anchors. This isn't in the plugin dB yet but you can get it from https://github.com/AnsonArgyris/moodle-atto_oembed

1) Disable Youtube filtering in the Oembed plugin. No good if you don't want it disabled everywhere.
2) Use the
tag style instead of the style in the Oembed settings. You would need to change the content everywhere that you have filtering currently.
3) Display the link you don't want filtered using escaped HTML anchors. So instead of <a> tag, you use & lt;a& gt; . (remove spaces after &).

We have almost similar problem. When sending links in messages, the youtube links gets removed from the message when the oembed filter is enabled. I write this in the mesage text area : https://www.screencast.com/t/45Qti6PUbkWY but only the text is recieved https://www.screencast.com/t/hR6A8m8Moid. And we cannot have the teachers and students using html tage, i dont think they would remember that.

Hopefully theres a solution i havent tried / overseen.

Kind regards
Henrik Sune Pedersen

There isn't currently any way that I know of to "selectively" filter oembed tags. Its kind of all or nothing. But, you can use div tags instead of HTML tags, so that you can precisely choose what you want to filter.

Hi,
I am trying to upgrade to the latest version of the filter plugin. I am on 3.2.3+. I am getting the following error:
Table "filter_oembed" does not exist"
Moodle hangs at this step. I can recover by restoring from a snapshot made just before update. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Madhu

@Madhu - it sounds like the upgrade script failed. You could try to force it to run again by running this SQL:

update mdl_config_plugins set value = '2016000000' where plugin = 'filter_oembed' and name = 'version'

And then go to /admin

I advise you to try this out in a test environment / clone of your site first.

@Madhu - if the table "filter_oembed" doesn't exist, and the oembed filter is trying to upgrade, then someone must have manually removed the table. You probably need to uninstall the filter and then reinstall it. You should be able to uninstall the plugin from the plugin admin screen.

@Madhu - Mike's solution is better than the one I suggested!