Improvement for embedded share links

K3Nv4 · 2026-08-13T04:07:08+0100

I like the feature we have but I feel like it could use some improvement.

-Some Facebook/instagram links aren't supported for videos I'm unsure if this is a fault with Facebook or the view amount?
-IMDb support, we like posting alot of upcoming movies it would be nice to embed into the site for a quick thumbnail preview.

Other than those two gripes the feature it's self looks snazzy and think it blends well.

Eg:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33508042/

smileyhead · 2026-08-13T13:11:53+0100

That Steam embed is a specific one rendered by Steam and so are all the video embeds. What GBAtemp needs is support for is the Open Graph protocol, which would let the site render generic cards with thumbnails, titles, and descriptions to the target page (assuming the target page's HTML file includes those tags).

The Open Graph protocol said:
Basic Metadata

To turn your web pages into graph objects, you need to add basic metadata toyour page. We've based the initial version of the protocol onRDFa which means that you'll placeadditional <meta> tags in the <head> of your web page. The four requiredproperties for every page are:

og:title - The title of your object as it should appear within the graph,e.g., "The Rock".

og:type - The type of your object, e.g., "video.movie". Depending onthe type you specify, other properties may also be required.

og:image - An image URL which should represent your object within thegraph.

og:url - The canonical URL of your object that will be used as itspermanent ID in the graph, e.g., "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/".

As an example, the following is the Open Graph protocol markup for The Rock onIMDB:

<html prefix="og: https://ogp.me/ns#">
<head>
<title>The Rock (1996)</title>
<meta property="og:title" content="The Rock" />
<meta property="og:type" content="video.movie" />
<meta property="og:url" content="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://ia.media-imdb.com/images/rock.jpg" />
...
</head>
...
</html>

K3Nv4 · 2026-08-13T21:59:03+0100

smileyhead said:
That Steam embed is a specific one rendered by Steam and so are all the video embeds. What GBAtemp needs is support for is the Open Graph protocol, which would let the site render generic cards with thumbnails, titles, and descriptions to the target page (assuming the target page's HTML file includes those tags).

Yeah I was thinking it had to deal with the actual site but knowing that @shaunj66 is a genius with this stuff I'm sure he could cook up something to make it more pretty, since it does look nice.

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