Comments on: oEmbed makes embedding third party videos and images a breeze

By: Adam Nemeth

Adam Nemeth — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:35:55 +0000

I created a small OEmbed proxy, which can also translate between YouTube GData API and OEmbed, thus a javascript client could use its own host’s resources to change links into embeds.

It’s pluginable (you have to write a class and add it to the providers.xml file), you can use OEmbed-compatible providers (they don’t need separate plugin just the two configuration options)… so… use it ;)

http://code.google.com/p/php-oembed/

By: Adam Nemeth

Adam Nemeth — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:35:55 +0000

I created a small OEmbed proxy, which can also translate between YouTube GData API and OEmbed, thus a javascript client could use its own host’s resources to change links into embeds.

http://code.google.com/p/php-oembed/

By: MG

MG — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:55:04 +0000

The oEmbed site says that “JSON responses must contain well formed JSON”, but the examples given are all invalid JSON. Oops. :-)

By: jaredhanson

jaredhanson — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:31:47 +0000

In my opinion, if RESTful principles are followed, the oEmbed API endpoint (and hence auto-discovery) is not required at all. I’ve blogged my thoughts here:

http://www.backdrifter.com/2008/05/09/oembed-fail-represent-restfully/

I’d be interested in further discussion.

By: iamcal

iamcal — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:03:01 +0000

davidmz: we’re working on the spec for auto-discovery at the moment. Expect to see it published very shortly.

By: davidmz

davidmz — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:57:26 +0000

It’s may be very useful standard, but one important thing is missing â€” a something like auto-discovery. â€œProviders must specify one or more URL scheme and API endpoint pairsâ€ â€” but WHERE providers must specify it?

By: Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:51:21 +0000

@dylangreene: I expect that sort of depends whether you’re snagging the data server-side or client-side. I figure the way I’ll use this is to get the data client-side to build and then use the same routine server-side (with cache) to ensure the content stays synced after it’s committed by a user.

By: dylangreene

dylangreene — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:30:04 +0000

This seems bad for Google juice. Will Google see these references and links?

By: pmontrasio

pmontrasio — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:22:20 +0000

Despite the label the first example shows XML, not HTML code, and in fact oEmbed returns either XML or JSON.

By: polysign

polysign — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:07:39 +0000

Nice to have a common api for embedding content! Hope to see more providers in the future.