3Speak is a relatively new video publishing platform in the Steem ecosystem. However, it was missing an official support in Steemit.com. This work is to allow support for the following requirements:
What's usually involved in adding support for an embedded video player is a little bit tedious (read repetitive) and I'm planning to find a way to make this simpler in the future:
A new logic was added for 3Speak: replacing their linked image with an embedded player. Up until now, there was only two ways of rendering an embedded player on Steemit.com:
However, when a user upload a video on 3Speak, their system creates a blog post with a big image linking to the 3Speak page. The code looks something like this:
[](https://3speak.online/watch?v=wehmoen/xrhjxocx)
The thing is the HTMLReady tool only allows replacement of text nodes but the Mardown code above has already been replaced with its HTML equivalent, hence bypassing HTMLReady. So I had to preprocess the HTML before it gets passed to HTMLReady.
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