From rory.nugent at nyu.edu  Sat Jul  4 06:14:12 2009
From: rory.nugent at nyu.edu (Rory Nugent)
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:14:12 -0400
Subject: Displaying embedded content, i.e. YouTube
Message-ID: <33092EDC-A8E7-4DC3-BE42-7B60D8F4328D@nyu.edu>

Has anyone had any luck displaying embedded content in their  
syndicated feed? I have some users who simple have a blog entry with  
nothing but a youtube video and it doesn't display the video after it  
has been syndicated by Planet Venus.

Any help would be appreciated!

-Rory

From rubys at intertwingly.net  Sat Jul  4 20:48:42 2009
From: rubys at intertwingly.net (Sam Ruby)
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:48:42 -0400
Subject: Displaying embedded content, i.e. YouTube
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Rory Nugent wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck displaying embedded content in their  
> syndicated feed? I have some users who simple have a blog entry with  
> nothing but a youtube video and it doesn't display the video after it  
> has been syndicated by Planet Venus.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated!

Venus is based on the Universal Feed Parser, and the latter strips 
object and embed tags and the like before Venus even "sees" the feed.

In an ideal world, the parser would be aware of the parameters specified 
in the config.ini file.  Perhaps object and embed could be stripped 
unless the content came from YouTube, where the choice of what sources 
to trust was made by the person who runs the planet.

I started down an experiment along those lines, and called the result 
mars.  It seemed promising at the time, but I have not gotten back to 
complete it, and nobody else has picked up on the work and run with it:

http://github.com/rubys/mars/tree/master

> -Rory

- Sam Ruby