I am working on an Automated Tumblr blog and noticed that you can't post Twitch streams as a video post, however when you embed them you can.
There are going to be multiple users and it will be expanding, so I am trying to automate the script in IFTTT, however, I don't have much scripting knowledge and tried to get this done... didn't work out.
The question:
It all starts with the content link, this can really be any platform. However, all platforms that aren't supported by Tumblr need a different embed.
So what I want is a script (not asking for the script, just help) that can detect what platform the link is from and chooses a path on what it found out.
Basically, a script that checks if it's twitch, run a, if it's youtube run b, etc.
If the input contains "Twitch" run:
<html>
<body>
<div id="twitch-embed"></div>
<script src="https://embed.twitch.tv/embed/v1.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
new Twitch.Embed("twitch-embed", {
width: 854,
height: 480,
channel: "{channel Name}"
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
If YouTube:
<script type="text/html" id="Video URL here">
How do I create these checks?
(I know this question is stupid and probably easy, but I am not really big on scripting)
You can take the URL string and check it against each keyword to determine if it exists:
var urlString = "https://www.twitch.tv/Reco_Mouse";
if(urlString.indexOf("twitch.tv") !== -1) {
//First, dynamically include the Twitch script tag on the page
new Twitch.Embed("twitch-embed", {
width: 854,
height: 480,
channel: "{channel Name}"
});
break;
} else if(urlString.indexOf("youtube.com") !== -1) {
//Apply necessary steps for YouTube videos
} else if(urlString.indexOf("anothervideotype.com") !== -1) {
... //Apply necessary steps for another video type
}