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Render rich video, poll, and translation embeds for X/Twitter and Bluesky links posted in Discord and Telegram.
Swap the domain prefix in shared X/Twitter or Bluesky links so members see rich video, poll, and quote embeds automatically, with no bot to invite or permission to grant.
Skip if your community mostly shares links from platforms outside FxEmbed's coverage; the public instances handle X/Twitter, X, and Bluesky specifically, and other platforms already have native rich previews in most chat apps.
Call the public FxTwitter and FxBluesky APIs directly to pull structured video URLs, poll results, and translations instead of scraping X or Bluesky, and self-host the same code if you need dedicated rate limits or uptime independent of the public instances.
Skip if you need official, rate-limit-guaranteed API access; FxEmbed's public API is a convenience layer built on top of the platforms, not their own developer platform.
Deploy the Docker Compose setup to run your own FxEmbed instance with custom domains, branding, and credentials instead of pointing traffic at the public fxtwitter.com and fxbsky.app services.
Skip if you just need occasional rich embeds for personal use; the public instances handle that without any deployment work.
Social links to X/Twitter and Bluesky posts often paste into Discord and Telegram as bare text or a broken preview: no video player, no poll results, no quoted-post context. Native platform embeds are inconsistent, and X restricts what an unauthenticated crawler can see, so a shared link that should show a video clip or poll result instead shows a flat title and a blue link.
Community managers either accept the degraded preview or ask members to open the original app to see what a post actually contains, which breaks the flow of a Discord or Telegram conversation. Developers building bots or dashboards on top of social content face the same gap: X and Bluesky do not hand structured post data to arbitrary scrapers, so pulling video URLs, poll results, or translations means building and maintaining that extraction layer themselves.
Replace the domain in any X/Twitter, X, or Bluesky link (twitter.com to fxtwitter.com, x.com to fixupx.com, bsky.app to fxbsky.app) and Discord, Telegram, and other link-preview-aware platforms render the rich card automatically. No bot invite, browser extension, or account setup required.
Videos and GIFs attached to a post embed and play directly inside the chat client instead of linking out, so memes, clips, and other video content stay in the conversation.
Poll results render in-line with vote percentages, and quoted or reposted content shows its own media, so readers get the full context of a thread without opening the original app.
Appending a language code to the rewritten URL translates the post text into that language before rendering the embed, useful for cross-language Discord and Telegram communities.
The same embed-generation logic that powers fxtwitter.com and fxbsky.app is exposed as a public API, so developers can pull structured post data (video URLs, poll results, translations) into their own bots or apps instead of scraping X or Bluesky directly.
Rich link-embedding for chat apps is usually sold as a hosted API, similar to services like Iframely and Embed.ly, which generate preview cards from a URL for a recurring subscription fee. FxEmbed covers a narrower, sharper case: it targets X/Twitter, X, and Bluesky specifically, rendering video, polls, and quoted-post context that generic link-preview APIs often cannot reconstruct from those platforms' restricted crawling rules.
| Feature | FxEmbed | Typical paid embed API |
|---|---|---|
| License | MIT | Proprietary |
| Self-hosting | Yes (Docker + Cloudflare Workers) | Rarely offered |
| Pricing | Free | Subscription |
| X/Twitter video, poll, and quote rendering | Yes | Varies by provider |
A paid embed API is still the better choice for a team that needs one integration covering hundreds of arbitrary domains and does not want to operate any infrastructure. FxEmbed is the better choice for Discord and Telegram communities and developers whose embedding needs are concentrated on X/Twitter and Bluesky links, who want the option to self-host under an MIT license instead of paying a recurring fee for a proprietary service.
FxEmbed self-hosts as a Cloudflare Worker; the Docker setup runs the local Workers runtime through Wrangler, and config changes require a rebuild.
```bash
cp .env.example .env
cp wrangler.example.toml wrangler.toml
cp branding.example.json branding.json
docker compose up -d --build
```Yes. FxEmbed is released under the MIT license, and the public fxtwitter.com, fixupx.com, and fxbsky.app instances are free to use with no account or signup. Self-hosting your own instance is also free beyond your own infrastructure costs.
Change the link's domain: twitter.com becomes fxtwitter.com, x.com becomes fixupx.com, and bsky.app becomes fxbsky.app. Paste the rewritten link into Discord, Telegram, or anywhere else that renders link previews, and the rich embed appears automatically.
Yes. The project provides a Docker Compose setup and a self-hosting guide; because FxEmbed is built as a Cloudflare Worker, the Docker image runs the local Workers runtime through Wrangler rather than a plain Node.js server. Copy the example .env, wrangler.toml, and branding.json files before your first build to set custom domains and credentials.
Yes. The public FxTwitter and FxBluesky APIs expose the same embed data used by the rewritten-URL service, including video URLs, poll results, and translations, so developers can integrate it into their own bots or apps.
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