Multimedia aggregation in an online social network

A computer server associated with a social network, comprising:

• a database comprising information associated with a plurality of users of the online social network, the information associated with each user of the plurality of users including user profile information, a URL identifying a profile page that includes the user profile information, and identifying information associated with one or more third-party multimedia content items;
• one or more non-transitory machine-readable storage media encoded with instructions;
• and
• one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to:
• retrieve identifying information associated with a third-party multimedia content item, the identifying information being associated with a user, wherein the identifying information associated with the multimedia content item comprises a source ID associated with the third-party source, a content ID associated with the multimedia content item, a URL, or any combination thereof, and wherein the source ID identifies a configuration file that specifies the format of the embed code and has a variable field into which a content ID is inserted;
• accessing an HTML embed code for the third-party multimedia content item;
• generate a profile page for the user comprising user profile information and the HTML embed code, and
• transmit information to display the profile page.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to:
• retrieve identifying information associated with a plurality of multimedia content items aggregated by a plurality of users of the online social network, the identifying information comprising a source ID associated with a third-party source of each multimedia content item, wherein each of the plurality of multimedia content items are associated with a user identifier;
• select at least one of the plurality of multimedia content items based on a user identifier;
• generate an embed code for the at least one of the plurality of multimedia content items using the source ID, wherein the source ID identifies a configuration file that specifies the format of the embed code and has a variable field into which a content ID is inserted;
• and
• generate, using the embed code, a web page comprising the at least one of the plurality of multimedia content items, the web page being associated with a first user.