OEmbed
Open specification for embedding website content
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oEmbed is an open format designed to allow embedding content from a website into any webpage. The specification was created by Cal Henderson, Leah Culver, Mike Malone, and Richard Crowley in 2008.[1] It is used by companies like Twitter to make tweets embeddable in blog posts[2] and by blogging platforms like Medium to allow content authors to include those snippets.[3]
An oEmbed exchange occurs between a consumer and a provider. A consumer wishes to show an embedded representation of a third-party resource on their own website, such as a photo or an embedded video. A provider implements the oEmbed API to allow consumers to fetch that representation.
The following software is able to embed content from websites that support oEmbed:
Examples
Request:
https://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=https%3A//youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DM3r2XDceM6A&format=json
Response:
{
"version": "1.0",
"type": "video",
"provider_name": "YouTube",
"provider_url": "https://youtube.com/",
"width": 425,
"height": 344,
"title": "Amazing Nintendo Facts",
"author_name": "ZackScott",
"author_url": "https://www.youtube.com/user/ZackScott",
"html":
"<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\">
<param name=\"movie\" value=\"https://www.youtube.com/v/M3r2XDceM6A&fs=1\"></param>
<param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param>
<param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param>
<embed src=\"https://www.youtube.com/v/M3r2XDceM6A&fs=1\"
type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"
allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed>
</object>",
}
