oEmbed/ Whitelisting a Google Site
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Hi there,
I’m trying to use WordPress’ oEmbed function to embed a Google ‘TourBuilder’ site into my WordPress page (essentially the same way that a Google Map would embed), but every time I attempt it, only the Google URL is posted. From what I’ve found in research, this is because the site I’m trying to embed is not whitelisted.
Can you help me with adding the Google TourBuilder site to WordPress’ whitelist? (URL to embed: https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/builder#play/ahJzfmd3ZWItdG91cmJ1aWxkZXJyEQsSBFRvdXIYgICg4fKMqwoM)
Thank you,
John Kopp
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Hello John,
In order to whitelist a specific service on WordPress.com that’s not already whitelisted in WordPress Core we’d need the developers of that service to reach out to us directly, as explained here:
That said, it does not look like Google Tourbuilder actually supports oEmbed on their end. The only support documentation for that product appears to be https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/about/faq which mentions nothing about embedding, and the only other info I can find is a very old Google forums thread at https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/earth/qYYpiEdKJKw/0S6vFS76xuIJ saying it’s not possible.
Additionally, it looks like that product is still in beta. It is very unlikely that either our developers or the core developers over on WordPress.org will add support for a product like this while it’s still in beta – given how long this product has existed, it doesn’t look likely that Google will ever fully launch it, which means not many people will use it.
I know that’s not the answer you want to hear, but I’d rather you have the facts than giving you a false expectation that this might be added soon.
I’ll definitely add this to our feature request list for our developers to consider, but I wouldn’t get my hopes up that support for this will be added.
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