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Robo.to: Really put your face into it

Add your robo.to video status update as a badge on your personal website or blog. It automatically displays your latest!

Make your badge using the customizer. Or manually edit the code by going to your "Share my Face" page to grab it then tweak the following:

Size
By default the size is set to a 288 pixel square. You can change the size of the badge by changing this variable to whatever pixel size you wish. There are a total of six instances of this in the code that would need to be changed.

Border
By default we have a 7px border. Simply change the 7px to 0px in order to remove the border. Simply change the color from black to another HTML color like pink or lightblue if you don't like the dark gray.

Loop
By default we loop the video status playback endlessly. If you think this will be too annoying on your page, you can turn off the looping and have it only play once after the page loads. Mousing over it will play it. To do this, simply look for the &loop=1 bit in the code and change it to &loop=0. There are two instances of this in the code that would need to be changed.

Text
By default we also display the status message text over the video. If you prefer to not display this, simply look for the &hideBlerb=0 bit in the code and change it to &hideBlerb=1. There are two instances of this in the code that would need to be changed.

If you don't want it to automatically show the latest updates you make but rather just one particular update you made in the past, you can do this by adding the particular iid to the end of your uuid codes... uuid=###############&iid=###### in red. This is a fake string of numbers of course. You can get your actual iid by clicking "Archive" from your robo.to page and picking the update you want to use. The URL of that one you select will give you the iid.

Comments (48)

Aug 11, 2009
aspirepixel said...
did you guys mean &hideBlurb, or actually Blerb?
Aug 14, 2009
Cole Rise said...
We've been spelling blerb with an 'e' internally, although 'blurb' was once in play. one of those words, I guess.
Aug 27, 2009
camilo. marmolejo said...
I want it to appear in my facebook accueil,,but don't know how,,, I pasted the code, and it doesnt show up. :( someone could tell me how ?
Aug 27, 2009
Ericson deJesus said...
Camilo,
I don't think Facebook lets you cutomize your page with embeds. Where are you trying to paste it?
Aug 27, 2009
camilo. marmolejo said...
thanks for your reply. I am trying to paste it into facebook, but it's impossible, I wanted to paste it in my wall, so everybody might see it. Thanks for your help, that is too kind from you. blessings
Aug 30, 2009
IulianaAlisa said...
I can't see My video when I am logged in,...but I can see other people's videos; and mine when I am not logged in. WHY? did something hapen to my profile?(sorry, i don't know where else i should ask these questions)
Feb 12, 2010
dapips said...
im trying to put in on lastfm... but... dont know howwwwwwwwwwww
Feb 22, 2010
Siouxie said...
Adding idd code doesn't work, just fyi.
Feb 23, 2010
Ericson deJesus said...
Fixed now! Siouxie, thanks for alerting us. It was something that went wrong on the server side so if you follow the same stepf by adding a &uuid=XXXXXX it should just work. Here's my test page showing where it is working... http://ericsondejesus.com/
Feb 23, 2010
mel said...
how do i post my robo.to onto tumblr?
Feb 25, 2010
Sandra said...
is there anyway the code can work for myspace?
Feb 25, 2010
Ericson deJesus said...
Sandra, did you try? Where does it not break? Here is a page that has it on as an example: http://www.myspace.com/marpixels
Feb 27, 2010
tomm said...
@mel, you go into videos, and then you paste a link of your robo.to page and add the stuff on the Customize page on robo.to that tells you to copy and paste. then it should work. worked for me :)
Mar 04, 2010
Kairi said...
and what about wordpress .. does it works too? I try it but something goes wrong
Mar 20, 2010
tohtoh said...
I can't paste the code on my blog :(
I used blogger html widget for it. But its still not working :(
Mar 25, 2010
Zhane said...
how can i redirect my robo.to account when the video is clicked?
Mar 25, 2010
Particle Design said...
it's actually pretty easy - if you look at the embed code, you'll see two places where it says "&href="

you want your link to go right after the "&href=", so it would look something like this: "&href=http://google.com"

just make sure you erase the current robo.to link, up to but not including the next ampersand "&"

does that make sense?




Apr 29, 2010
scott_ad said...
Is there a way to get it to float to the right? I tried adding a normal float after the div tag, but it's not being nice.
May 17, 2010
magie said...
awww! i can't resize it. the only one who gets smaller is the border but not the video.
May 21, 2010
janine said...
I place my robo.to on my blogspot but it's not playin. What could be the reason? I just pasted what I copied on "Share my Face". :((
May 21, 2010
Not sure what changed recently to cause this, but a user mentioned that in Blogger if you use the embed code from the "Simple Badge" and not the "Custom Badge" then it works.
Jun 07, 2010
Mhia said...
I wanna ask how to put this on facebook? coz I've been trying hard to put my one vid but I can't do it anymore unlike before. : (
Jun 08, 2010
Mhia, just add the Facebook module to your robo page and authenticate. From there each time you update you will have a choice to relay it to Facebook.
Jun 08, 2010
ashley said...
I'm embedding it on tumblr, and I added the &iid= part, yet it's combining the video I want to embed with the most recent video I've posted on robo.to

any suggestions?

Jun 08, 2010
ashley, not sure what you mean by "combining". Can you send a link to your Tumblr?
Jun 09, 2010
alliyah said...
HOW DO YOU GET THE CODE FOR A VIDEO BCUZ I ALWAYS TRIED TO DO THIS ONE VIDEO OF MINE BUT IT ALWAYS HAS THE CODE FOR THE LATEST ONE I MADE.
Jun 10, 2010
alliyah, See the last paragraph of the post above!
Jun 24, 2010
julian said...
how do you put it on tumblr
Jun 24, 2010
julian said...
how do you put it on tumblr
Jun 25, 2010
allison said...
i want to post one of my videos somewhere but then i try to get the embedded code and i only get the one for the last video i made. and i want it for an older one but i don't know how or if that's even possible.
Jun 26, 2010
allison, yes you can specify which particular robo update to show. The instructions are in the last paragraph above.
Jun 28, 2010
Sunio said...
I can't paste the code on my blog :(
I used blogger html widget for it. But its still not working :(
Jul 18, 2010
houstonbch said...
Cole Rise - My robo.to video used to show on the lower left hand side of my Facebook profile page. I can't remember how I did that, but I believe I had set robo.to to "share" on Facebook, but I don't see that option anymore. Let me know if you figure it out, I'll do the same.
Jul 25, 2010
Mhia said...
alright, no worries i'm still figuring it out :(

Jul 27, 2010
Deja said...
I don't see the archive button anywhere, where is it?
Jul 27, 2010
Oh we've changed the label to "see all" on the top right of your roboto card.
Jul 28, 2010
Deja said...
Okay so I found my UUID code & the iid code of the video I want to use, and I pasted them together like the example above, but using my own numbers, and is that all I do? Thanks B)
Aug 26, 2010
ianvall said...
,,,,,,,,
Aug 26, 2010
ianvall said...
sleepless
Nov 06, 2010
lhelphelp said...
when i go to my tumblr site and i click customize where do i put to robo.to gift i made of myself.
i want to put it on my tumblr website....

down there VVV where do i put THAT LINK
thats not the whole link yeah...

<object height="288" width="288"><param>http://robo.to/swf/smirk.swf?href=http://robo.to/snazzyisabelle&sName=SmirksController&fx=1&hideBlerb=0&target=_blank&loop=1&cURI=rtmp%3A%2F%2Frobo.to%2Fsmirk_u

Nov 08, 2010
Hiuxing said...
Innovative! Love this simple yet awesome idea!
Dec 13, 2010
Mimi said...
How do you add this to your facebook? I checked the box that said facbook, but it still wont show up on it.
Dec 31, 2010
chris said...
]: I tried adding the &iid=###### onto the end or the uuid codes but it wouldn't work. it just kept showing my most recent update.
Jan 09, 2011
edwin alfred said...
Is time to sleep
Jun 30, 2011
melissa Sanchez said...
how do i know what the llild is to put on the uuid??
Aug 28, 2011
melissa Sanchez said...
where do i find my iid .. i keep puttign the ones i see with my face and its always some other girl when i finally post it..
Sep 24, 2011
Amanda said...
I tried to insert it in html mode in an entry on wordpress and it won't work. What am I doing wrong?
Dec 11, 2011
FLUE said...
I've tried to embed this to my blog on blogger.com
Can anyone tell me how to do it? Where to add the code in the html-code of the blog layout????

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