Olly.js (1.0)

A JavaScript library to convert URLs into embedable HTML.

Example

Usage

Instal with bower or download dist/olly.js

bower install Olly.js

After being included with a <script> tag, Olly exposes the olly object (weird, right?). This object has one important method olly.embed The .embed method takes, at a minimum, a URL from a supported service and a DOM element. The method then fills the provided element with the rich media from the provided URL. For example, a link to a Youtube video will fill the provided element with an embedded Youtube player for the video:

olly.embed("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-8QAFqAAJ8", document.getElementById("youtube"));

This will fill #youtube with the following markup.

<embed width="420" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/x-8QAFqAAJ8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">

These methods can both take an optional services argument which allows you to specify which types of URLs should be embedded. For example, if we only want Youtube videos to be embedded, we can do this:

olly.embed("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-8QAFqAAJ8", document.getElementById("blog-post"), {youtube: olly.EMBED});

Contributing

If you're looking to add a service to Olly.js, please include the following changes in your pull:

The modified sources for Olly.js which integrate the service.
An example added to markup/examples.html.
A change to the README listing the new service under Supported Services.

Supported Services

Video

Youtube
Vimeo
Twitch.TV
Dotsub
Dailymotion
LiveLeak
Vine
TED

Audio

Soundcloud
Spotify

Images

Imgur
Gfycat

Social

Reddit Subreddits and Users
Twitter Tweets

Other

Github Repos
jsFiddle

Supported File Types