• Registered: 2025-01-09
  • Posts: 2

Topic: Embed RC media outside RC?

I'm wondering how to embed a video hosted on RC in an external website. There is a video at this link: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2477200/3087714. I participated in the performance and would love to include an excerpt in an article for a journal that doesn't use RC. (How) is this possible?

I suppose it would be best to simply embed the video (ideally with a time marker) in an iframe.

Or perhaps there is a way to make videos on RC downloadable.. then I could edit the file myself and upload it to the journal's server.

Thanks in advance for your help.

  • Registered: 2016-10-05
  • Posts: 116

Re: Embed RC media outside RC?

Media links within the RC are always temporary: they stay valid for 24 hours, then they stop working.
I believe it was done this way to prevent bots from stealing bandwidth.
Unfortunately, this also hinders embedding exposition content.

To download a video within an exposition:
- open the exposition page
- open the browser inspector*
- open "network" tab
- at this point, start the playback of the video
- look at the biggest file it will have type mp4
- right click this item, open it in a new tab
- you can now "save as" this tab, it should be an mp4 file.

In any case, one should always check the license and copyright of the material before republishing media from an exposition.
This information can be found on the META page (if the author supplied it, that is), available through the navigation bar at the top.

* In Chrome & Firefox, right-click anywhere on the webpage and choose Inspect, or press Command + Option + I (Mac) or Ctrl + Shift + I (Windows/Linux).

In Safari, enable the Develop menu by going to Safari > Settings (or Preferences) > Advanced and checking Show Develop menu in menu bar. Then, right-click on a webpage and select Inspect Element, or use the shortcut Command + Option + I.

  • Registered: 2025-01-09
  • Posts: 2

Re: Embed RC media outside RC?

Thank you, that's a helpful workaround!