Package: collective.videolink
IntroductionThis package adds a new view to Plone’s Link content type. If the remote url of
the link is an oembedable video collective.videolink will
override the defaultlink_redirect_viewbrowserview to show
the embedded video.ContentsIntroductionCreditsDependenciesPlone 4 compatibilityPlone 5 compatibilityWhy this package ?Changelog5.0a5 (2018-03-16)5.0a45.0a25.0a13.0a43.0a2.0a1.0a101.0a91.0a51.0a41.0a31.0aCreditsThe code was originally forked from another project
nmd.ploneaslinkvideoembedDependenciesPlonerequestsplone.patternslibPlone 4 compatibilityUse collective.videolink 3.0a5Plone 5 compatibilityUse collective.videolink >5.0Version 5 has support for video from Vimeo and Youtube and experimental support for public video links from Google Drive.Why this package ?I needed a way to display video links in a thumbnail gallery style view
This provides a simple view for collections of video links.
This is known to work with videos from youtube and vimeo. It also works with
soundcloud and other oembedable links.Changelog5.0a5 (2018-03-16)now “unshortens” urls from goo.gl and flickr [pigeonflight]supports embedding flickr albums [pigeonflight]5.0a4version bump [pigeonflight]5.0a2updated changelog and readme5.0a1added soundcloud and experimental google drive video support [pigeonflight]now works with Plone 5 [pigeonflight]further customisations to the embeddedvideo listings view and individual view [pigeonflight]added dependency on plone.patternslib and videos now use pat-inject to load inline;fixed thumbnailing so that thumbnails are created on creation not just modification of a video link [pigeonflight]refactored to use a custom marker interface “IVideoLinkOembedable” as a strategy for overriding the default link view with a video view; we no longer implement our own display view in the display menu [pigeonflight]test suite updated to work with plone.app.testing3.0a4replaced collective.colorbox with collective.prettyphoto [pigeonflight]do not purge viewmethods [cleder]use metal:content-core fill-slot=”content-core” to simplify pagetemplate [cleder]added embeddedvideos view to Collections and Folders [pigeonflight]known to work with Plone 4.2 and 4.33.0acollective.colorbox with collective.prettyphotothis version requires Plone 4 as it uses the json module which ships with Python 2.6 [pigeonflight]now properly supports blip.tv and youtube videos [pigeonflight]2.0aversion that is now compatible with Plone 4 [pigeonflight]1.0a10updated viddler code to compensate when url is missing a trailing slash [pigeonflight]1.0a9prevent uneccessary repetition of queries to oembed providers [pigeonflight]1.0a5fixed bug where normal links would become broken when product is installed [pigeonflight]1.0a4removed stray ‘debugging’ line in embed.pt that was showing uneccessary metadata [pigeonflight]1.0a3now relies on oohembed for videos that are not from vimeo,youtube or viddler [pigeonflight]thumbnails will be forced to 200px width in the @@embeddedvideos collection view [pigeonflight]1.0aadded proof of concept auto thumbnails for vimeo videos [pigeonflight]created a custom view for collections called @@embeddedvideos [pigeonflight]forked from nmd.plonelinkasvideoembed [pigeonflight]