Bluesky BBCode

[veelo2]

With everyone migrating away from Twitter/X I'm seeing more requests to link from Bluesky. Is there an easy BB Code to be able to add for those embeds?

[glennrocksvb]

I checked bsky.app and analyzed their embed code and it looks like embedding it requires 2 dynamic data in which one is not exposed to the UI and thus not available to the users.

[veelo2]

Got it, thank you for checking! Hopefully they change their embed code to make it more functional in the future.

[glennrocksvb]

I'll try and see if I can find a workaround to it

[Wobak]

Was there any update to that glennrocksvb ?

[Plissken]

I would absolutely love to see this one for vBulletin Cloud. I know it can be done in Invision and there is a document about embedding here.

https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/oembed

(I tried to do something fancy with BBCode, rewriting a Bluesky link to point to https://embed.bsky.app/oembed but then it got a bit beyond me...)

[glennrocksvb]

I looked into the Bluesky embed documentation and it requires sending a request to the Bluesky oembed URL endpoint https://embed.bsky.app/oembed to dynamically fetch the embed HTML. You cannot send this request directly from the browser due to CORS restriction. That means creating a custom Bluesky BBCode in AdminCP alone is not enough. Unlike vB4, vBulletin 5 or 6 doesnt provide a way to create a PHP plugin for a custom BBCode where you could send arequest to the Bluesky oembed URL endpoint passing a Bluesky post URL and parse the response and render the embed HTML. It would require editing existing PHP files which is not recommended to implement it.