The captioned embed stopped shipping a reel's video_url and never draws a
logged-out <video>, so both the payload and the DOM hand back the cover
frame alone. Because that still counts as media, the post-page fallback
never fired and a reel resolved to a still image.
Trigger the fallback when the URL is a reel (or the payload declared a
video) but no video was found, so it reaches the post page, whose payload
still carries the progressive file in video_versions. The embed's
caption, handle and avatar are carried forward, since the post-page
payload does not include the owner.
Co-authored-by: anthropic/claude-opus-4-8
antisocial is the other half of a StopTheMadness redirect rule. Links to X,
Threads, Instagram, TikTok and Bluesky get rewritten to /<prefix>/<original
path>, and this resolves the post and shows the media and the words, with a
badge saying where it came from and a button to copy the original URL.
Every request drives a real headless Chromium, logged out, from a residential
IP. One code path, and it survives markup changes better than parsing from the
outside would. Extraction is layered, most structured first: the platform's own
API response caught in flight, then an inline payload, then the rendered DOM,
then Open Graph tags.
Media is never linked straight at a CDN. Instagram and TikTok reject requests
without a matching Referer and cookies, and proxying keeps the viewer's browser
from talking to the platform at all. Range is forwarded so the native video
scrubber can seek. HLS is the exception, since proxying it would mean rewriting
playlists.
TikTok sometimes answers with a slider puzzle. Rather than reporting that as a
failure, the page is parked and the viewer is handed the puzzle: screenshots
stream out, pointer events are replayed back. Solving it leaves the cookie in
the shared browser context, so the retry is an ordinary request.
A failed resolve is never a blank error page. The card carries the platform, the
original URL and the copy button, so a broken adapter still leaves the link one
tap away.
Verified end to end against real shared links on all five platforms, in the
container, including multi-image carousels, reels, TikTok short links and photo
posts. 49 tests run the adapters against captured payloads with no network.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BGkRmLfiWuJHx6tQ12EELY
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