A JavaScript library to convert URLs into embedable HTML.

Live Demo

Instal with bower or download dist/olly.js

bower install Olly.js

After being included with a <script> tag, Olly exposes the olly object (weird, right?). This object has two important methods olly.embed and olly.richify. The .embed method takes, at a minimum, a URL from a supported service and a DOM element. The method then fills the provided element with the rich media from the provided URL. For example, a link to a Youtube video will fill the provided element with an embedded Youtube player for the video:

olly.embed("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-8QAFqAAJ8", document.getElementById("youtube"));

This will fill #youtube with the following markup.

'<embed width="420" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/x-8QAFqAAJ8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">'

The second method is olly.richify which takes a blob of text and searches it for embeddable URLs.

olly.richify("Check out this sweet video<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-8QAFqAAJ8<br />Cool, right?", document.getElementById("blog-post"));

These methods can both take an optional services argument which allows you to specify which types of URLs should be embedded. For example, if we only want Youtube videos to be embedded, we can do this:

olly.richify("Check out this sweet video<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-8QAFqAAJ8<br />How about a vimeo link?<br />http://vimeo.com/78276911<br />", document.getElementById("blog-post"), {youtube: olly.EMBED});

If you're looking to add a service to Olly.js, please include the following changes in your pull:

• The modified sources for Olly.js which integrate the service.
• An example added to markup/examples.html.
• A change to the README listing the new service under Supported Services.

Video

• Youtube
• Vimeo
• Twitch.TV
• Dotsub
• Dailymotion
• LiveLeak
• Vine
• TED

Audio

• Soundcloud
• Spotify

Images

• Imgur
• Gfycat

Social

• Reddit Subreddits and Users
• Twitter Tweets

Other

• Github Repos
• jsFiddle

Video

• MP4
• WebM
• OGV

Images

• JPG
• PNG
• BMP
• GIF

Audio

• MP3
• OGG

... and any other you want to implement, pull requests are appreciated!