[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #50861: Remove Facebook and Instagram as an oEmbed Source
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#50861: Remove Facebook and Instagram as an oEmbed Source
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Reporter: whyisjake | Owner: (none)
Type: task (blessed) | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: 5.5.2
Component: Embeds | Version:
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: good-first-bug has-patch has- | Focuses:
screenshots |
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Changes (by desrosj):
* keywords: good-first-bug has-patch => good-first-bug has-patch has-
screenshots
Comment:
I've been doing some testing on this today. @mkaz
[https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQBWTW/p1600897126280400?thread_ts=1600893722.219300&cid=C02RQBWTW
shared] the [https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/oembed-legacy
Facebook documentation link] yesterday that has a way to simulate how the
API will act after the deprecation date.
You can simulate the experience dropping this in an MU plugin:
{{{
add_filter( 'oembed_fetch_url', function( $provider, $url ) {
if ( ! in_array( $provider, array( 'facebook', 'instagram' ), true
) ) {
return $url;
}
return add_query_arg( 'breaking_change', 'oembed', $url );
}, 10, 2 );
}}}
This snippet will show how new attempts to embed Facebook/Instagram posts
will be act once the deprecation date is reached (a `400` code will be
returned). However, it doesn't tell us what changes will happen to
existing, cached embeds.
When a link is embedded in a post, the HTML response from the provider is
cached in post meta (unless the embed is placed within a widget's content,
then it is cached in the hidden `oembed_cache` post type in a similar
way). In the example above, this is the cached markup for the Instagram
post:
{{{
<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-
permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CEU6QukJkQy/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading"
data-instgrm-version="12" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-
radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0
rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:580px; min-width:326px;
padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100%
- 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;"> <a
href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CEU6QukJkQy/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading"
style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center;
text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"> <div style=" display:
flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-
color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-
right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-
direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="
background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px;
margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style=" background-color:
#F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width:
60px;"></div></div></div><div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div
style="display:block; height:50px; margin:0 auto 12px; width:50px;"><svg
width="50px" height="50px" viewBox="0 0 60 60" version="1.1"
xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g stroke="none" stroke-
width="1" fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd"><g
transform="translate(-511.000000, -20.000000)" fill="#000000"><g><path
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570.82,37.631"></path></g></g></g></svg></div><div style="padding-top:
8px;"> <div style=" color:#3897f0; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-
size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;"> View
this post on Instagram</div></div><div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px;
align-items: center;"><div> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-
radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px)
translateY(7px);"></div> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; height:
12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width:
12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"></div> <div
style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px;
width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px)
translateY(-18px);"></div></div><div style="margin-left: 8px;"> <div
style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0;
height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div> <div style=" width: 0; height: 0;
border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-
bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px)
translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)"></div></div><div style="margin-left:
auto;"> <div style=" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-
right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div> <div
style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width:
16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div> <div style=" width: 0; height:
0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent;
transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div></div></div></a> <p
style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"> <a
href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CEU6QukJkQy/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading"
style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-
style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;
word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">📸 Take a look at Hurricane Laura
pictured by @Astro_SEAL from 254 miles above Earth. For more than five
decades, we have used the vantage point of space to understand and explore
our home planet, improve lives, and safeguard our future. In addition to
observations from the International Space Station (@ISS), our @NASAEarth
satellites monitor hurricanes to bring new capabilities and tools for
studying them. Credit: NASA/Chris Cassidy #Hurricane #ExtremeWeather
#NASA #EarthFromSpace #StormClouds #Atlantic</a></p> <p style="
color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-
height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px
0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A
post shared by <a
href="https://www.instagram.com/nasa/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading"
style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-
style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;" target="_blank">
NASA</a> (@nasa) on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-
size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2020-08-25T21:04:57+00:00">Aug 25,
2020 at 2:04pm PDT</time></p></div></blockquote><script async
src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
}}}
We know this markup will persist, but we don't know how the behavior will
change. The best guess we can make is to remove the JS file to simulate
that file also returning a 400 type error. After removing the JS file in
the Facebook and Instagram embed, the before and after images I uploaded
are the results.
I'd note I don't particularly like how the Facebook embed becomes just a
plain blockquote. It's not clear to users that clicking the links in that
embed will navigate you to Facebook. The Instagram "fallback" is actually
quite nice.
This is also the best guess we can really make at this time without more
direction from Facebook. It is possible that they change the contents of
the JS file to manipulate cached embeds, perhaps to display a warning that
the site is using an old method to embed content or that the request is
not properly authenticated.
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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/50861#comment:35>
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