Embedding images like on Quora

[Vibhu Rishi]

Hi,

Is there a way to have images show up by just pasting a url ? 

e.g. on Quora, if i paste a url to an image - http://www.brothersthegame.com/core/media/images/brothers_europe05_big.jpg

it shows up as an image not as a URL. How can I achieve the same using django ? 

Regards,

Vibhu

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[Vibhu Rishi]

some more details of what I am looking for : 

Its a forum kind of thing. So, the model has a TextField where user can type whatever text he wants which can include urls and images. 

for urls, i can use a template filter like urlize

I want something similar for images ( imgize ? )

V. 

[trojactory]

Hi Vibhu,

This works automatically for certain sites if they implement a standard called oEmbed (http://oembed.com/). Several sites like Flickr, Youtube etc support providing a thumbnail for a url within their domain. Django has several packages which support oEmbed, of which, I have used micawber (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/micawber) very successfully in the past.

For a general solution, you will need to download the page in the background and parse it for a representative image. 

Hope this addresses your question.

Regards,

Arun

[Vibhu Rishi]

Hi Arun

Thanks man. This is also interesting. 

However, I dont really want to download the web and autolink the image ( as how it is in facebook - though I think now that I know i would want to try it out also). What I want to achieve is that if there is an image which a person has hosted on google+/flickr/etc , just pasting that url in his post will show the thumbnail of that image. So, lets say he has an album on google+, and he is referencing 2 or 3 images he can then just paste their links, and they show up as images. 

V. 

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