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[Aaron Wells <1441395@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

http://embed.ly is a service that facilitates embedding external content
via a URL. You use their API to pass them a URL to, say, a New York
Times article, and they read the URL, fetch the right embed for it, and
send you back an iframe to embed that NYT article nicely.

There is a non-core embed.ly block written by Gregor Anzelj:
https://mahara.org/user/anzeljg/embedly-blocktype

This block works  great, but it is a little awkward that if you activate
it, your users get two blocks: "External media" and "embed.ly", and
these both essentially do the same thing.

What would be better, is that we put optional support for embed.ly
dircetly into the "External media" block. So, we provide a space for the
site admin to enter an embed.ly API key. If they do that, then we change
the help text for the "External media" block so that it indicates you
can just paste the site URL in for the whole wide range of sites that
embed.ly supports.

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: Triaged

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1441395

Title:
  Integrate embed.ly support into the "external media" block

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  http://embed.ly is a service that facilitates embedding external
  content via a URL. You use their API to pass them a URL to, say, a New
  York Times article, and they read the URL, fetch the right embed for
  it, and send you back an iframe to embed that NYT article nicely.

  There is a non-core embed.ly block written by Gregor Anzelj:
  https://mahara.org/user/anzeljg/embedly-blocktype

  This block works  great, but it is a little awkward that if you
  activate it, your users get two blocks: "External media" and
  "embed.ly", and these both essentially do the same thing.

  What would be better, is that we put optional support for embed.ly
  dircetly into the "External media" block. So, we provide a space for
  the site admin to enter an embed.ly API key. If they do that, then we
  change the help text for the "External media" block so that it
  indicates you can just paste the site URL in for the whole wide range
  of sites that embed.ly supports.

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