Feature Request: Self-hosted options

[martinkwebdev]

Just an interesting idea: I'd love to see the possibility of the embed builder being able to generate options that can be self-hosted.
For example:

You input your website URL and youtube video URL.

The embed builder then generates the source code to embed, but instead of https://vumbnail.com/621585396.jpg (for example) it generates customers-website.com/vumbnail/images/xxxxx.jpg

This would be paired with an automatically generated zip file containing the generated thumb and a pre-made file structure of /vumbnail/xxxx.jpg that the users can download and just easily FTP / upload to their Cpanel and unzip it and that way the embedded source would open up their own images, ensuring they will keep on working regardless of the future of the platform.

The zip can then be deleted from your servers, as it has already served its purpose (which is to be downloaded by the user).

[ThatGuySam]

Yeah, I think that Custom Thumbnail URLs in general will likely be a feature more people ask for.

The ideal target site would like be WordPress since it's like 40% of all sites.

[martinkwebdev]

Yeah, I think that Custom Thumbnail URLs in general will likely be a feature more people ask for.

The ideal target site would like be WordPress since it's like 40% of all sites.

Yes, my guess is that WordPress users would be a huge chunk of the potential users.

My own use case of this feature is using it to embed a product video on an Opencart website while trying to avoid the negative pagespeed score impact of using the normal youtube embed code.
However, I'm guessing this feature would be sort of universal since it just generates an embed code based on the user's website, paired with a pre-made file structure that can easily be uploaded with FTP and unzipped.

If adapting it to WordPress would require some WordPress - specific code that isn't needed anywhere else, maybe the feature could be expanded with an option to pick a platform the embed code is meant to work for.
For example, a "WordPress embed code" option, and a "Universal"/"General" embed code option.

[ThatGuySam]

I think it might be mostly the same for adding it to a WordPress site, but that's too big of a user segment to ignore, so you always have to think about it a little bit.