How Does Desmos Auto Embed Links in Posts?

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You can now paste a Desmos calculator link and it will auto embed into the post
 
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This is great!
This was something I had hoped for
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/edit-how-to-colour-an-edited-formula.1012132/post-6598505

Is there a way to make a link (maybe as an icon) to the original desmos-URL?
(It would be tedious to reconstruct the URL by, say, quoting it then reading the contents of the media tag.
(I personally like to keep a reference to the original so that when I make modifications to it, I like to leave a reference to the original author, post, and desmos-url. With Desmos, saving or sharing generates a new URL. )

By comparison, with the YouTube embeds, one can click on the YouTube logo to get the YouTube page.
 
robphy said:
Is there a way to make a link (maybe as an icon) to the original desmos-URL?
Click on the "share" icon at the top of the embedded frame

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pbuk said:
Click on the "share" icon at the top of the embedded frame

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That produces a new URL, e.g.,
Code:
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/p8latwndfc
but the original-URL is (reconstructed, as I described above, from quoting the original post and reading the tag)
Code:
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/g7izucn6nn

Try it yourself below (or you may already have if that is a screencapture from this thread).... the original is g7izucn6nn
Greg Bernhardt said:
You can now paste a Desmos calculator link and it will auto embed into the post


Why do I want the original-URL?
robphy said:
(I personally like to keep a reference to the original so that when I make modifications to it, I like to leave a reference to the original author, post, and desmos-url. With Desmos, saving or sharing generates a new URL. )
 
robphy said:
That produces a new URL, e.g.,
So it does: this is how Desmos works.

robphy said:
but the original-URL is (reconstructed, as I described above, from quoting the original post and reading the tag)
Code:
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/g7izucn6nn
In what sense do you think that that URL is 'original': as you pointed out
robphy said:
With Desmos, saving or sharing generates a new URL.
...so g7izucn6nn is not the 'original' URL either.
 
pbuk said:
so g7izucn6nn is not the 'original' URL either.

It is the original URL from Greg's post
Code:
You can now paste a Desmos calculator link and it will auto embed into the post
[MEDIA=1432]g7izucn6nn[/MEDIA]
So, if I am trying to cite my reference to Greg's post and Greg's Desmos file... this is the best I can do.


Greg Bernhardt said:
You can now paste a Desmos calculator link and it will auto embed into the post
 
This feature now appears broken.

On Microsoft Edge on Windows 11, I get a blank field with no-symbol and a message "This content is blocked. Contact the site owner to fix the issue.".
On Firefox on Windows 11 and Edge and Firefox on IOS, I get a blank field.
 
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