django-embed 0.2.1

A simple Django app to generate embed code from youtube, twitter and slideshare.

Embed is a Django app to generate the embed code for youtube, twitter and slideshare.

Detailed documentation is in the “docs” directory.

Quick start

1. Add “embed” to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

   INSTALLED_APPS = (
       ...
       'embed',
   )

2. Run python manage.py syncdb to create the embed cache model.

3. Import Embed class.

   from embed.utils import Embed

3. You can use it individually for each service or all of them.

   youtube = Embed.get_youtube_embed(string=”Check this video https://youtu.be/THgLyTucjmk”)

4. The Embed will return a string with the link replaced with the embed code.

5. If you want use the twitter functionality you have to set your twitter api keys.

   Embed.consumer_key = ‘dummy-consumer-key’ Embed.consumer_secret = ‘dummy-consumer-secret’ Embed.oauth_token = ‘dummy-access-token’ Embed.oauth_token_secret = ‘dummy-access-token-secret’

6. You can set the parameters for the embed objects.

   Embed.config[‘width’] = ‘430’

7. If you are using MySQL you need to encode to utf-8 the “embed_code” column of the EmbedCache table in your database.