Embed external site

[espinari]

I have created a Tbymeleaf Spring simple app that provides a simple html page as output. I want to embed this site into aem and have tried extending the Embed component with a custom url processor, but when rendering the page I only see the URL. Is there a way to render the output of an external system???

[chaudharynick]

Can you inspect the page and look for console logs/errors.

Also, in the component dialog box what type checkbox have you selected?

[espinari]

@chaudharynick no console errors. It is "URL" that's why I implemented a custom URL processor

[Vijayalakshmi_S]

Hi @espinari,

Can you confirm if you have HTL file in the name of the custom processor. If yes, how are you including the content from external site. 

[espinari]

Hi @Vijayalakshmi_S,

I extended the embed component and created the htl file with the same name as the custom url processor (as suggested by Adobe). To render the content of the external html I used an iframe, but just for testing purposes..... I would like to know if there is another way to render the content without using an iframe (I reckon the pinterest out of the box component uses a js library to render the content, so maybe that's something I need to get done, unfortunately Im no expert with js).

[Vijayalakshmi_S]

Hi @espinari,

No worries. There are quite a few options available online to include external content without use of Iframe.(Example : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39102215/how-to-show-external-website-inside-another-page-withou...)

One such is use of load function of jQuery - https://api.jquery.com/load/

(You can surf and decide which best suits your use case)

Good read about working with HTML content in a page for your reference - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Safely_inserting_external_con...

[espinari]

Thanks @Vijayalakshmi_S!!!! Another one, is there any solution to render at server side (just like HTL) the external site? I already created a solution to import information from external sites as a model so I'm wondering this 'cause maybe in the future Ill get asked to get this done as mentioned.... thanks a lot for the help!!!

[Vijayalakshmi_S]

@espinari,

We can get it done using Java as well using java.net.URL API - https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/net/URL.html

[shelly-goel]

@espinari  - You can use iframe and embed the site url in it to render on AEM page

[espinari]

@shelly-goel I totally forgot to mention that the iframe is not an option (I used it for testing purposes and it works).