Putting a camera on somebody else’s page.
Schools, parish websites and village halls can embed any camera here. Everybody else needs to ask first, and the answer is usually yes.
The rules, which are short.
A school, a parish council or a village hall can embed any camera on this estate without asking anybody. Take the embed code from the camera page, put it on your site, and that is the end of the process.
A commercial site should ask. Not because we want a fee — there is none — but because we want to know where a feed of our own yard is appearing, and because an embed sitting inside somebody else’s advertising is a different proposition from one on a parish noticeboard.
The one absolute rule is that the embed must carry the source. Not for search reasons. Because a picture of a farm without a farm attached to it is exactly how a still from this hedge ends up in a newspaper attributed to nobody.
- Schools, parishes and village halls: embed freely, no permission needed
- Commercial sites: ask first, and the answer is usually yes
- Every embed carries the camera name and a link back
- No embed may be modified, cropped, overlaid or re-labelled
What the embed actually is.
The technical part
- Format
- An iframe, one line
- Size
- Responsive, 16:9, minimum 320 px wide
- Weight
- About 40 KB before the stream starts
- Cookies set
- NoneThe embed sets nothing, in any context.
- Tracking
- NoneIt does not know whose page it is on and does not ask.
- Fallback
- The same stamped stillAn embed degrades exactly as the camera page does.
The conditions
- Attribution
- RequiredThe camera name and a link back, both included by default.
- Modification
- Not permittedNo cropping, overlay, re-labelling or filtering.
- Commercial use
- Ask firstThere is no fee. We only want to know where it is.
- Withdrawal
- We can switch one offIt has happened once, and the reason was obvious.
This is a demonstration build, so the embed code on the camera pages renders a placeholder rather than a live stream.
How to do it.
Pick the camera
Any of the ten. The hedgerow is the safest choice for a page that has to look the same all year.
Copy the line from the camera page
One iframe, responsive, no configuration to get wrong.
Leave the attribution alone
It is part of the embed rather than something you have to add.
Tell us, if you are commercial
One email. We have never said no, but we have asked people to move an embed away from an advert.
One embed has been switched off
A site was framing the lambing camera inside its own advertising and describing it as their own farm. That is the only kind of thing that gets a feed withdrawn, and it took one email to fix.
Two cameras that embed well.
Both look the same all year, neither has people in shot, and neither goes out of season.
Embedding, in short.
One line
A responsive iframe, and nothing to configure.
No cookies
The embed sets nothing, anywhere, ever.
Free for schools
And parishes, and village halls, without asking.
Attribution required
It is built in. Removing it is the one thing that gets a feed pulled.
Talk to a person about it.
Bothering Us goes to somebody who can actually answer, which for a commercial embed is the fastest route.
