'Dropbox Paper' page does not show in iframe

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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?

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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>
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