'Dropbox Paper' page does not show in iframe

yalcin · 2020-08-17T18:44:40.070Z

I am using dropbox paper to create documents and would like to show these pages in obsidian with iframe. For some reason the iframe does not seem to be working and the embedded page does not show.

Does anyone have an idea why?

ryanjamurphy · 2020-08-17T19:43:40.796Z

Can you share the embed code? Feel free to obfuscate the link if necessary, I just want to see what the embed code looks like.

yalcin · 2020-08-18T09:13:45.318Z

Unfortunately they do not provide an embed code. I assumed the url should be enough as the page is shared publicly and can be viewed by anyone with the link.

ryanjamurphy · 2020-08-18T14:03:12.957Z

Ah, so what are you putting in Obsidian to render the embed?

rigmarole · 2020-08-18T18:00:55.951Z

I don’t know, but I saw this post that implied some online services (or Chromium) might block being embedded.

I cannot get iframe to work Resolved help

If you open Developer Tools, I think you’d see this: [image] Which is a security feature of Chromium (on which Electron apps are run), as explained here. I don’t know wether this could be made to work, but I think that’s why it’s not working.

On the other hand, it appeared to work after a while, in that thread. So I don’t know!

yalcin · 2020-08-19T07:20:29.047Z

the url of the publicly shared dropbox paper page. ie: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Electric-Cars-Policy--A59FPki6558hdJ_ODilP4kIMAQ-hmNAHsvgCxbWydjQXOxpc

ryanjamurphy · 2020-08-19T12:52:40.313Z

Ah, that’s why. That isn’t an embed code. Embeds are special HTML elements.

Looks like this isn’t available for Dropbox Paper: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Embedding-Dropbox-Paper-docs-display-in-iframe-is-this-on-the/td-p/367473

yalcin · 2020-08-19T20:14:37.091Z

So there is no way to display that url in an iframe? Strange: It renders perfectly with another similar app (TheBrain)

ryanjamurphy · 2020-08-19T20:16:50.713Z

TheBrain might be doing something to render a browser page inside the app. I’m not sure if that’s possible in Obsidian, but I can’t imagine how to make it happen if the source app doesn’t actually provide a “real” embed code.

For what it’s worth, that looks like this:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oHg5SJYRHA0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>