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Websites

• [x] URL tester page
• [ ] how to deal with fails (nabber or such...)

Images

• [ ] direct link to image file - no control over image display
• [ ] file hosting services (Box, Google Drive)
  • IU Box, Google Drive don't allow iframe
• [ ] photo services (Flickr, Google Photos, Instagram)
  • album view vs slideshow view
  • show image directly without extra UI
  • Google Photos doesn't allow iframe for image, album, or slideshow view
  • Flickr doesn't allow iframe for image, album, or slideshow
  • Instagram doesn't allow iframe

Videos

• [ ] direct link to video file
• [ ] file hosting services (Box, Google Drive)
• [x] video services (YouTube, Vimeo)
  • show video directly without extra UI
  • mute
  • autoplay
  • loop
  • playlists
  • can't figure out how to autoplay playlists on YouTube nor Vimeo

3D

• [x] model services (SketchFab, Google Poly, Matterport)

Maps

• [x] Google Maps, Bing Maps, Google Earth, Cesium, Carto, Mapbox, OSM, ESRI Story Maps
• [ ] control extents and layers

Advanced Media

• [x] GigaPan, KrPano, YouTube 360
• [ ] Knight lab tools

Audio

• [x] Soundcloud, Spotify

Office

• slide sharing
• Google Docs
• Office 360

[dmreagan]

Can services like Iframely and Embedly help here?

Iframely supports an open-source self-hosted option. More info here and here.

Embedly also has some open-source components, but it's not obvious whether you can use them without paying for an API key.

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