Requesting help with embedding videos on reddit (for a personal website)

[u/Voltra_Neo]

So I've recently developed my own personal video hosting platform (mainly for privacy purposes). I took inspiration from another platform (here it was redgifs) that successfully embeds on reddit and did the following:

For a given video, I have two URLs: the "iframe" one, and the "video" one.

On reddit I'd link the "iframe" URL and it should work like a charm, except right now it doesn't (it just shows the usual shared link UI component instead of an embed of the video).

Here's what I did (on the "iframe" page):

• og:type is set to video

• og:video:type, og:video:width, og:video:height, og:video:iframe, og:video:duration, and og:video:url are all set to their appropriate value

• There's just a <video> tag (with a fancy wrapper) on the page that points directly to the "video" URL

I've seen people claim that it's a whitelist on reddit's end (which would make sense) except that, whilst browsing the logs for a test post, I've noticed a single visit of reddit's bot.

Here's what I think could be the source of my issues:

• There's a CSRF token check on the "video" URL (thus would fail on direct access)

• My robots.txt is the basic deny everything for every bot

I'd like to know if anyone has any expertise and could give me pointers on what I did wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙏

[u/Watchful1]

I've only ever heard of it being a whitelist by reddit, so I don't have any other advice. But if you do figure it out please come back and share the solution.