Would be nice if GitLab snippets were embedded automatically

By pythonmegapixel
March 26, 2021 in Forum Suggestions

Posted March 26, 2021

GitLab (the main competitor to GitHub) as a feature called "snippets" which allows small sections of code to be shown in a nice format on one page.

They also have a very nice embedded widget thingy to put these on other sites, so I think it would be nice if someone posted a link to a snippet, if that snippet was automatically embedded, just like Twitter and YouTube.

Generating embed code for them is pretty simple - all it requires is that you load the snippet URL as JavaScript with the .js extension on the end.

So, for example, if I have my snippet https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2095997

then to embed it, it's

<script src="https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2095997.js" />

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Posted March 26, 2021

The forum only has first class support for embeds that use oEmbed, a standard API for getting the embedded content for a given URL. GitLab doesn't support oEmbed, so it wouldn't be straight forward to add, and given that gitlab is significantly less popular than github, and links to github gists are pretty rare, I don't think it makes sense to try to work around that.

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Posted March 26, 2021

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26 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

The forum only has first class support for embeds that use oEmbed, a standard API for getting the embedded content for a given URL. GitLab doesn't support oEmbed, so it wouldn't be straight forward to add, and given that gitlab is significantly less popular than github, and links to github gists are pretty rare, I don't think it makes sense to try to work around that.

I'd forgotten about Gists, otherwise I'd have mentioned them too.

Do Gists autoembed? Because if so, I might switch to using them. I'm really not a fan of how this forum handles code blocks, and I like having the integrations with a Git provider.

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Posted March 26, 2021

3 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

I'd forgotten about Gists, otherwise I'd have mentioned them too.

Do Gists autoembed? Because if so, I might switch to using them. I'm really not a fan of how this forum handles code blocks, and I like having the integrations with a Git provider.

No, they don't support oembed either.

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