In yesterday's hackathon I took another whack at Media Manager 2.0 adding support for two of the web's most popular media sharing services, Flickr and YouTube.
I have yet to update the documentation for these new services, so here are a few things you should know.
1. YouTube support requires no special configuration. Yay YouTube!
2. Flickr support requires that you register for a Flickr API Key, that you will input into your System Preferences for the Flickr plugin. Once that has been setup, you need to go to your profile, select "Flickr Auh" and authorize your MT blog to access your Flickr account.
Flickr support still needs a lot of work - especially in the search area. But this is likely to get overhauled a great deal as Media Manager because more of a framework for supporting third party media integration with MT.
The download/build below is an early build for which I have done very little testing. If you are a brave soul I would really appreciate your help and feedback in downloading and testing it.
I configured the plugin at the system level with the API key and secret.
I went to my profile and hit the authorize link but it takes me to Flickr and Flickr no like.
Gives me:
Oops! Flickr can't find a valid callback URL. An external application has requested your login credentials and permission to perform certain actions on your behalf, but has failed to include all the required data.
With You Tube, it works flawlessly. Flickr, on the other hand, keeps telling me it can´t find no photos. I have plenty though.
Brandon, make sure you setup your Flickr endpoint to point back to your Movable Type installation. Set your API key to be bound to a web application, and set the callback URL to point to your mt.cgi script with a mode of "flickr_authed" -- for example:
More documentation needs to provided. That is for sure. I am sorry Jose you had to be my guinea pig. To use Flickr, one needs to:
acquire an API key from Flickr
Set the authentication type for the API key to "Web Application"
Set the call back URL for the API key to "http://url.to/your/mt.cgi?_mode=flickrauthed".
From within Movable Type, edit your profile by clicking your name in the upper right hand corner.
Select "Flickr Auth"
Follow the steps outlined there and you should be done.
Let me know if these instructions help and then I will lock them down in some official capacity.
tried the above and once the auth is done I get sent back to the dashboard - when I select create flickr asset I get the following message: No photos could be found.
Loaded plugin ok. Flickr: followed config instructions, got auth from Flickr ok, same outcome as tonyv - no photos Amazon: no books. Is this something to do with configuring it for e.g. amazon.co.uk rather than defaulting to .com? In the old MTAmazon there was a setting for location. YouTube: no probs - looks great, so easy!
Sorry Byrne, I've now found the locale maintenance again and set it to UK! I've also switched on the 1 second delay. But still no books coming back from the search, and no content to the error message, just your fixed text about an error 50 at Amazon.
Amazon Web Service Access Key ID was what I was missing (there's some many Amazon keys....!) - Amazon stuff works fine for me now. Great stuff.
I received the same Flickr error as TonyV.
Amazon and YouTube work well.
Nice piece of code. Will you be implementing direct links to individual accounts in YouTube and Flickr too? That would be sweet.
Thanks, Byrne, for this plugin! The additional flickr instructions you provided for Jose appear to have worked for my setup too, but I am not seeing any assets listed for flickr.
One inconsistency I found is that the standard URL for MT to identify the mode has two underscores, but the flickr endpoint should only have one.
In my case your instructions allowed me to setup Flickr on my blog and import my photos as flickr assets that whow in the asset manager. But then I can't insert them either as images or flickr asset files in the entry body. The best thing I get is an embedded IMG tag with a broken URL in the SRC attribute.
Awesome plugin. Can't wait to see what other modules people will come up with. For me to get the auth to finally work I had to use this as the URL
http://path/to/mt.cgi?__mode=flickr_authed
two underscores after the ? and one between flickr and authed. Hope that helps someone that is still having troubles.
Thanks Wilbur - now I've caught up with Jose with the broken link but its getting close!
Still struggling with Amazon. On a local xampp installation it works just fine. On a clean install of MT on my web server (with exact same settings in the plugin and using the same search) I'm seeing "Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ... MTAmazon3/Util.pm line 164." I'm no Perl coder but does this mean I have no AWS ID/associateID/locale setting, or there's nothing being returned from Amazon once I select a book?
Duh. If I had thought a bit harder, I would have connected what I was seeing with what was happening. Wilbur is correct (and so is Byrne) regarding the URL that needs to be entered in the flickr api interface in your flickr account. The problem appears to be the MT comments here on the blog substituting the underscores with italicized text. To reiterate what Wilbur said, the correct URL is http://path/to/mt.cgi?[2 underscores]mode=flickr[1 underscore]authed
When you attempt to authorize through the Flickr Authed user in your MT install, it should keep you on the "request authorization from flickr" page, and show a "frob" and a "token." You should not be taken back to the main MT login page.
correcting underscores solved my authed issue. Now when I go to add a flickr asset to a entry my picure does not display in the entry. I can view the picture under the "asset manager" however, when I click the view link within the "asset manager" I get a page not found error.
I've got things working. Two questions:
How can I edit an Amazon asset? Under the manage assets, you have the option to edit the Amazon asset's tags, but I'd like to be able to edit the title, or my description?
I've got the Amazon sidebar working great using tags (like "reading" and "read"). Now I'd like to create a page that contains grid of my Amazon assets (title and image). I think I'd like to do something like this, but I can't get it to work:
Flickr photo is not showing up in my entries, all I get is a place holder with the image name - no picture. Has anyone gotten this to work. Youtube and Amazon work great.
Thanks
I've tried this, including the double underscore tip, but when I go back to my MT installation for Flickr Authorization, nothing happens after I click the link. I don't get any further instructions.
Two comments:
1) I tried the YouTube one and get this error after I entered a search term: "Can't use string ("Why Leopard is Better Than Vista") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at /home/users/web/b2994/pow.thehutch/htdocs/cgi-bin/mt/plugins/MediaManager/lib/YouTube/CMS.pm line 97." I'm not sure what to make of that. Is it a setting I need to change?
2) I don't really want to use Flickr or get a Flickr API; is there any way I can turn that off so it isn't offered? I'm not the only author on my blog and I don't want them trying to add a Flickr asset and bugging me.
The Flickr images don't work out of the box if you use a plain embedded image (meaning the popup and link options work). The code is missing that gets the image file itself. I have added that and can supply the changes to Byrne if needed.
Hi Brandon,
Could you please post the changes to ensure the Flickr assets work?
Cheers, Tim
Hi,
I really look forward to getting this working, it's just what I've been looking for. I'm having some problems, and it might just be because I'm new to MT. I've followed all the instructions to install the beta for MT4 and I have created an amazon asset. I also pasted the template tag sample code into my sidebar. What I see is the last 4 books I've entered, just their pictures, no title or reviews. Ultimately I would like to have in my sidebar the last 10 or so book titles, with book covers, book ratings, and a one sentence review. How can I accomplish this with your plugin? It seems as if that is what it is designed to do, yet I can't quite figure it out. Thanks...
Eric
I don't know whether it's me doing something wrong or not, but in MT 4.1, the Flickr Authorisation link doesn't appear in my profile. The plug-in's loading and I've entered the Flick API key and secret into the system preferences, but there's no link.
I discovered this today too. Media Manager needs to be updated to work with MT4.1.
This plugin works well with my MT4.1 installation. Useful information and/or workaround posted above helped me smooth landing.