Twitter embeds don't work on production

[johncarter-]

Thanks for such a great package.

I am using Laravel, locally using Laravel Sail and in production using a Laravel Forge provisioned Digital Ocean droplet.

I am running this code:

Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan::command('embed', function () {
    $embera = new \Embera\Embera();

    // $testUrl = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ'; // 👌
    // $testUrl = 'https://vimeo.com/374131624'; // 👌
    // $testUrl = 'https://twitter.com/KYVENetwork/status/1655919857685221376?s=20'; // 💩
    $testUrl = 'https://twitter.com/Interior/status/507185938620219395'; // 💩

    $embedUrlData = $embera->getUrlData($testUrl);

    dump($embedUrlData);
});

It seems that Twitter embeds return an empty array every time on production, but work locally.

Does you have any suggestions why that could be?

Thanks again.

[johncarter-]

Oh, mercy!

oscarotero/Embed#518 (comment)

[mpratt]

Hi @JohnCarter
Yes, Indeed there seems to be a problem with some hosting providers. I had a report coming from German servers having the same problem adn while doing the debug we found this instances where something similar happened:

https://twittercommunity.com/t/oembed-responses-are-returns-with-code-404/136813 (April 2020)
https://twittercommunity.com/t/oembed-404/167966 (März 2022)
https://twittercommunity.com/t/issue-with-twitter-oembed-api-when-accessed-from-digitalocean-droplets/194215 (May 2023)

Lets see if twitter responds

[mpratt]

There seems to be a solution to this problem:

Given the ip address ranges described here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/blog/product-news/2022/updated-source-ip-address-range

You need to allow all TCP connections from those IP ranges.

https://300m.com/security/twitter-oembed-broken-on-digitalocean/

Let me know if this works for you.

[johncarter-]

I can confirm the following works:

1. Go to Digital Ocean control panel > Networking > Firewalls (tab) > Create Firewall

2. Add the following rules:
   

3. Assign that rule to your Droplet.

4. Profit 💷

Thanks again for the package and prompt response, it's highly appreciated.

[mpratt]

No problem @johncarter- !
Thanks for the feedback, Im closing this issue. 👍