Sean Creeley
suggested this on March 28, 2010 18:37
Let us know which services we should add next.
Comments
Bill Creswell
I love it! I wouldn't mind seeing TrailerSpy and Overstream support...
April 25, 2010 21:14
Sean Creeley
embed.ly
Added them today. Thanks!
April 26, 2010 21:03
Bill Creswell
Hmm. DotSUB works like a champ, but the two formats of TrailerSpy (CC, not CC) don't seem to work with the embed.ly script? http://billcreswell.com/index.php/Video
April 26, 2010 22:16
Sean Creeley
embed.ly
Thanks for the bug report, we have fixed CC. I checked out that page and I can now see the CC trailer. Enjoy.
April 27, 2010 12:07
Abhinav Saxena
Great work guys, I am currently using a bunch of different oembed services (from flickr, vimeo and oohembed.com), definitely I am going to switch to embed.ly this week.
We will support this type of discovery soon, Ill keep you posted
April 30, 2010 18:38
Art
embed.ly
Niek,
I'll take a look at snotr.com, nice name!
April 30, 2010 18:39
Jeff Cedeno
Zaptiks support would be awesome, they are one of the biggest sports streaming services in Europe! Great video example below, impressive even if you don't kite surf...
RE: bit.ly , we are looking for better ways to support this, right now it would yield quite a few requests that don't necessarily have oembeds. Feel free to submit a support ticket, and we can try to help solve this for your specific use cases.
May 21, 2010 13:51
Kris Keener
Phanfare slideshows.
May 26, 2010 14:35
EvilDead
Embed.ly is really awesome. It was so easy to add it to my own blog.
I would love to see Watuki.com added if at all possible.
May 31, 2010 22:33
Sean Creeley
embed.ly
@EvilDead Thanks! I don't see any url examples for Watuki though. What would they look like?
May 31, 2010 23:27
EvilDead
Hi Sean
Here is an example of the url structure for watuki.com
You can see the embed code on the right under "Share."
deviantART also has Ajaxy navigation, which complicates things a bit. If you navigate to the above picture from another part of the site, it might load using Ajax, in which case a fragment of the form #/xxxxxx will be appended to the current URL, where xxxxxx is a URL-shortener-esque code. For example, the above image can be accessed from both of these URLs:
Add generic viewers. IOW I may host my own pics and MP3s. it would be great if I could self configure embed.ly to put my player/viewer into the mix for my site.
July 01, 2010 16:01
Sean Creeley
embed.ly
@Nelson What fixes need to be made to imgur and worlstarhiphop? Send me an email: sean@embed.ly
July 01, 2010 16:52
Nelson Fernandez
Not sure what the fix is but the problems are:
1) imgur replaces the link with the text "undefined"
2) worldstarhiphop just displays the link to the video. No embed.
Enjoy! We will continue to add more of the requests soon, keep them coming!
July 12, 2010 12:00
Jordan Running
Great! Thanks, Art!
Just one note: The deviantART "thumbnails" are pretty large. I know deviantART serves actual thumbnail-sized thumbnails from the th*.deviantart.com servers (instead of fc*.deviantart.com). Is it not possible to get those programmatically, or was the larger view chosen for a different reason? Just curious.
July 12, 2010 12:15
Art
embed.ly
Jordan, send me a quick support ticket and we can try to get them fixed today.
July 12, 2010 12:20
Nelson Fernandez
I suggested a custom provider for our own sites a while back. Any news on this. To recap: The ability to embed a custom player for our own hosted MP3 or MP4 files.
My music site uses a lot of MP3 embeds and I'd love to be able to have any link that contains a URL to an MP3 file be replaced with a player I use on my site. I can do this with Javascript now but having embed.ly detect it and use my custom code would be icing on the cake.
Perhaps we can make use of a secondary file that the embed.ly API would look for. In this file we would identify the regex and replacement code ourselves. This may also lead to a community of scripts we could all share to extend this API to infinity.
Also, this is not really a service, but how difficult would it be to make embedly also recognize plain image formats (jpg, png, gif) and create thumbnails from them?
Here's my contribution... I'd like to see some japanese video/picture sharing sites used with Embedly. I work with the wordpress community here in Japan, and I love recommending the WP embedly plugin, but it doesn't have support for local sites we use! (also it needs a Japanese translation, but I'll deal with that one later [^.^])
Only issue is that the person's site that will host the embed must be whitelisted first. It's a simple task to fill out a form and have your site whitelisted though.
Yes, amazon is JAPAN'S largest web seller. link structure is the same as the normal .com address; just make one for .co.jp (and other country specific TLD while you're at it)
November 21, 2010 02:38
J. L. Gatewood
Got a few more.
Google Docs-- what about the ability to embed them somehow? or use Google Doc's viewer to parse any PDF, DOC, XLS, and other formats it supports?
And the whole facebook thing... I turned that function off in the Embedly plugin, because this one seems to do a really good job of embedding not only video and pictures from Facebook, but events, pages, groups, notes, etc. As long as they are open to the public, it'll embed it. I'm thinking maybe the same way you remixed the twitter embeds to look more like Blackbird Pie, you can talk to this guy and do the same thing with the Facebook embedding? Just a thought.
Great suggestions! Here is what we've done and will try to do.
RE: Nicovideo , we've added, but not released due to it not being public accessible unless whitelisted.
RE: Amazon.co.jp, Added support for all Amazon extensions (.fr , .co.uk, .de, .co.jp, .ca) - http://bit.ly/eoDajs
RE: Facebook - Will look into this, the definition of Open to the Public seems very hand waving since you cannot get to the photo unless you are logged into facebook.
RE: PDF, DOC, etc. viewer - Reviewing this internally, there are some logisitics around being able to accurately do this.
Currently, IMDB videos do not work as embeds. If you find otherwise, please feel free to submit a ticket.
February 07, 2011 12:33
Mathias Panzenböck
It would be cool if you could add a provider for magnatune.com albums. Magnatune does not provide an oembed endpoint, so one has to write a small wrapper reading the album page. So the URL schema would be:
You need to load the album page (e.g. http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/sieber-hidden/) in order to find the artist name and url (the link containing the artist name and linking to his/her page has the properties rel="cc:attributionURL" and property="cc:attributionName") and the album name (which is the i element following the artist link). Using this the embed code and thumbnail URL can be build.
It would be really great if this would be supported! :)
February 14, 2011 20:14
Mathias Panzenböck
Also support for OpenStreetMap would be great. They don't habe an oEmbed endpoint either, but here everything should be calculable from the URL. Provided one knows how. But OSM is open source and also has a stackoverflow like help page for developers:
Comments
I love it! I wouldn't mind seeing TrailerSpy and Overstream support...
Added them today. Thanks!
Hmm. DotSUB works like a champ, but the two formats of TrailerSpy (CC, not CC) don't seem to work with the embed.ly script? http://billcreswell.com/index.php/Video
Thanks for the bug report, we have fixed CC. I checked out that page and I can now see the CC trailer. Enjoy.
Great work guys, I am currently using a bunch of different oembed services (from flickr, vimeo and oohembed.com), definitely I am going to switch to embed.ly this week.
I would love to see support for Picasa slideshows, Flickr photo sets and Google PDF/PPT viewer (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/embeddable-google-document...)
Snotr.com support would be great!
Hi Abnihav,
We support
RE: Flickr photo sets are supported , let me know if you are having trouble
http://www.flickr.com/photos/soleysk/sets/72157623631181111/
http://api.embed.ly/embed?url=http%3A//www.flickr.com/photos/soleys...
RE: Picasa
Working on that now,
RE: Google PDF/PPT
We will support this type of discovery soon, Ill keep you posted
Niek,
I'll take a look at snotr.com, nice name!
Zaptiks support would be awesome, they are one of the biggest sports streaming services in Europe! Great video example below, impressive even if you don't kite surf...
http://www.zapiks.com/kitesurf-revolve.html
Wow! didn't know you already had support for flickr photo sets. Great.
Mixcloud.com support would be fantastic.
Sample Mixcloud urls:
http://www.mixcloud.com/FilAwsephEyez/brave-new-world/
http://www.mixcloud.com/FilAwsephEyez/brave-new-world/player/
eg: http://www.mixcloud.com/<user>/<playlist-slug>/ & http://www.mixcloud.com/<user>/<playlist-slug>/player/&...
JSON info url:
http://www.mixcloud.com/api/1/cloudcast/FilAwsephEyez/brave-new-wor...
http://www.mixcloud.com/api/1/cloudcast/<username>/<playli...
Embed code:
<object width="500" height="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.mixcloud.com/media/swf/player/mixcloudLoader.swf?v=19" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="flashVars" value="feed=http://www.mixcloud.com/api/1/cloudcast/FilAwsephEyez/brave-new-wor..." /><embed src="http://www.mixcloud.com/media/swf/player/mixcloudLoader.swf?v=19" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="feed=http://www.mixcloud.com/api/1/cloudcast/OisinLunny/oisin-lunny-burl..." width="500" height="500"></embed></object>
Please add status.net accounts to your list. Mine is http://robsanchez.status.net
How about atom.com?
Hi Abnihav and all,
We've added support for Picasa albums, photos and slideshows.
Some example calls
# photo
http://api.embed.ly/v1/api/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Flh%2Fphoto%2FAYYPO-Af3R_dR2ddAyiOGg%3Ffeat%3Dtwitter&maxwidth=600&format=xml
# photo different url style
http://api.embed.ly/v1/api/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google...
#album - which turns into a slideshow
http://api.embed.ly/v1/api/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google...
# slideshow from slideshow url
http://api.embed.ly/v1/api/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google...
I'd like to request that you consider following redirects, so that a shortened link might work. For example:
http://bit.ly/bNRKm7 ...which is a shortened YouTube link.
Thanks!
RE: bit.ly , we are looking for better ways to support this, right now it would yield quite a few requests that don't necessarily have oembeds. Feel free to submit a support ticket, and we can try to help solve this for your specific use cases.
Phanfare slideshows.
Embed.ly is really awesome. It was so easy to add it to my own blog.
I would love to see Watuki.com added if at all possible.
@EvilDead Thanks! I don't see any url examples for Watuki though. What would they look like?
Hi Sean
Here is an example of the url structure for watuki.com
Domain/imagetype-ID.extension
Small Thumbnail http://www.watuki.com/pt-1412753571052.png
Medium Thumbnail http://www.watuki.com/pm-1412753571052.png
Direct Link http://www.watuki.com/di-1412753571052.jpg
Hope that helps..
Thanks again for all the hard work you've done on Embed.ly
Support for Dropbox photo albums would be great - we had the request from two separate clients
@Pascal. Good one. Can you send us some example urls?
Hi Sean,
Sure here's the default album: http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/3077985/1/Sample%20Album?h=827bab
And here's another test album: http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/3077985/1/Tester?h=f798cb
Thanks!
deviantART would be a nice addition. http://deviantart.com/
Here's an example deviantART URL:
http://shimoda7.deviantart.com/art/Prisoner-of-my-own-33234157
You can see the embed code on the right under "Share."
deviantART also has Ajaxy navigation, which complicates things a bit. If you navigate to the above picture from another part of the site, it might load using Ajax, in which case a fragment of the form #/xxxxxx will be appended to the current URL, where xxxxxx is a URL-shortener-esque code. For example, the above image can be accessed from both of these URLs:
http://www.deviantart.com/#/djsbn1
http://shimoda7.deviantart.com/art/Dancer-2-59221793#/djsbn1
These codes actually correspond to URLs on deviantART's own URL shortener, fav.me, so:
http://fav.me/djsbn1
will take you to the same image as the above URLs.
How about Fast Company? e.g.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1662940/sneak-peak-the-high-line-2
And NZ On Screen? e.g.
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/weekly-review-no-432-1949
tinypic , youtube playlist support
fixes needed: imgur and worldstarhiphop
Add generic viewers. IOW I may host my own pics and MP3s. it would be great if I could self configure embed.ly to put my player/viewer into the mix for my site.
@Nelson What fixes need to be made to imgur and worlstarhiphop? Send me an email: sean@embed.ly
Not sure what the fix is but the problems are:
1) imgur replaces the link with the text "undefined"
2) worldstarhiphop just displays the link to the video. No embed.
@Nelson Ok, What urls are you seeing do this?
Sorry.. forgot the links
1) http://imgur.com/LMs9e.jpg
2) http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhPg8L5SwFya7E30Ur
Hi everyone,
We will be working more on adding and prioritising providers this week.
@nelson, just fixed your issue, it was a javascript bug, feel free to add a support ticket for anymore issues.
http://github.com/embedly/embedly-jquery , http://scripts.embed.ly/jquery.embedly.js
pastie.org and pastebin.com
Just to update, in the last couple of days we've added the following providers:
* http://api.embed.ly/#tinypic (tinypic.com)
* http://api.embed.ly/embed?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftinypic.com%2Fview.php%3...
* http://api.embed.ly/#meadd (meadd.com)
* http://api.embed.ly/embed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmeadd.com%2Fcraque_robin...
* http://api.embed.ly/#deviantart (deviantart.com)
* http://api.embed.ly/embed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deviantart.com%2F%23...
* http://api.embed.ly/#koldcasttv (koldcast.tv)
* http://api.embed.ly/embed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.koldcast.tv%2F%23%2F...
Enjoy! We will continue to add more of the requests soon, keep them coming!
Great! Thanks, Art!
Just one note: The deviantART "thumbnails" are pretty large. I know deviantART serves actual thumbnail-sized thumbnails from the th*.deviantart.com servers (instead of fc*.deviantart.com). Is it not possible to get those programmatically, or was the larger view chosen for a different reason? Just curious.
Jordan, send me a quick support ticket and we can try to get them fixed today.
I suggested a custom provider for our own sites a while back. Any news on this. To recap: The ability to embed a custom player for our own hosted MP3 or MP4 files.
My music site uses a lot of MP3 embeds and I'd love to be able to have any link that contains a URL to an MP3 file be replaced with a player I use on my site. I can do this with Javascript now but having embed.ly detect it and use my custom code would be icing on the cake.
Perhaps we can make use of a secondary file that the embed.ly API would look for. In this file we would identify the regex and replacement code ourselves. This may also lead to a community of scripts we could all share to extend this API to infinity.
http://www.skitch.com/
Embedable charts from Compete.com and Quantcast.com
http://www.quantcast.com/hulu.com
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/hulu.com/
http://www.entertonement.com/
http://www.timetoast.com
New providers, enjoy!
* http://api.embed.ly/#quantcast - ( quantcast.com )
* http://api.embed.ly/embed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quantcast.com%2Fhulu...
* http://api.embed.ly/#compete - ( compete.com )
* http://api.embed.ly/embed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsiteanalytics.compete.co...
I would love to see support for Amazon.de, the german version.
Dropbox support would be great, not just for galleries. In my case I'd like to share mp3 files (songs recorded by an elementary school choir).
Hi guys, great service!
I (and many others I think) would love support for Radionomy radios. Here's an example link of a radio:
http://www.radionomy.com/nl/radio/mr-jack
Cheers!
http://dumpert.nl support would be excellent!
Sample url: http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1104081/b9d63fe5/epic_headshot.html
Also, this is not really a service, but how difficult would it be to make embedly also recognize plain image formats (jpg, png, gif) and create thumbnails from them?
Newtwitter doesn't embed like old Twitter. See e.g. http://twitter.com/#!/gruber/status/26852970183
Please support embedding IMDB links. E.g. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804497/
Please also add support for embedding (say) the first or summary paragraph of Wikipedia articles. And a pony. Thanks!
Wikipedia,
http://api.embed.ly/v1/api/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org...
New twitter,
http://api.embed.ly/v1/api/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F%2...
Wow, thanks! What's the regular expression for those URLs? I didn't see Wikipedia listed on the generator.
You guys are amazing.
This breaks you with a 500 error: http://api.embed.ly/embed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%... (Wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Šin )
Fizz, wikipedia.org/wiki/*
Re: breaking , send a support ticket in. Might be some special characters our page doesnt like, try api with the call.
Please support embedding video from southparkstudios.com. E.g. http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/104274/what-scientologist-act...
Please add support for videos from MediaMatters. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201010110037
http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=200116&title=Drawing_a_face___3rd_step works, but
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=200116&title=Drawing_a_face___3rd_step fails
this appears to be a recent change, I remember seeing the www.teachertube.com urls working just fine.
Please support embedding items from Hacker News. E.g. this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1826755
N.B.submissions and comments have the same URL scheme, but the HTML is different.
Twitter seems to have stopped working. E.g. http://twitter.com/#!/Remiel/status/27860457639
Support for http://www.fotopedia.com/ would be awesome; they've got great content :)
And thanks for Radionomy support!!
Re: twitter urls , if the problem persists please submit a ticket. That url seems to be working properly now. (http://api.embed.ly/v1/api/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F%2...)
Re: fotopedia - should be in soon!
Art
(can I delete the previous comment? here's again without the garbage, sorry)
Flickr photo URLs with the '@' character don't seem to be working.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36821100@N04/3948666283/
Thanks! (congrats for a great service, btw)
Feel free to put any issues in a support ticket. Make sure you escape urls before sending to Embedly.
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Here's my contribution... I'd like to see some japanese video/picture sharing sites used with Embedly. I work with the wordpress community here in Japan, and I love recommending the WP embedly plugin, but it doesn't have support for local sites we use! (also it needs a Japanese translation, but I'll deal with that one later [^.^])
NicoNico Video http://www.nicovideo.jp/
One of Japan's fastest growing video/picture share services. Also does live streaming via mobile phones here too...
They use a script tag that generates an iFrame for their embeds. Here's an example...
video URL http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/1245233619
generates this script tag... <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ext.nicovideo.jp/thumb_watch/sm123456789"></script>
Only issue is that the person's site that will host the embed must be whitelisted first. It's a simple task to fill out a form and have your site whitelisted though.
Amazon Japan http://www.Amazon.co.jp
Yes, amazon is JAPAN'S largest web seller. link structure is the same as the normal .com address; just make one for .co.jp (and other country specific TLD while you're at it)
Got a few more.
Google Docs-- what about the ability to embed them somehow? or use Google Doc's viewer to parse any PDF, DOC, XLS, and other formats it supports?
http://docs.google.com/viewer
And the whole facebook thing... I turned that function off in the Embedly plugin, because this one seems to do a really good job of embedding not only video and pictures from Facebook, but events, pages, groups, notes, etc. As long as they are open to the public, it'll embed it. I'm thinking maybe the same way you remixed the twitter embeds to look more like Blackbird Pie, you can talk to this guy and do the same thing with the Facebook embedding? Just a thought.
plugin maker's HP: http://wp.sohailabid.com/
Great suggestions! Here is what we've done and will try to do.
RE: Nicovideo , we've added, but not released due to it not being public accessible unless whitelisted.
RE: Amazon.co.jp, Added support for all Amazon extensions (.fr , .co.uk, .de, .co.jp, .ca) - http://bit.ly/eoDajs
RE: Facebook - Will look into this, the definition of Open to the Public seems very hand waving since you cannot get to the photo unless you are logged into facebook.
RE: PDF, DOC, etc. viewer - Reviewing this internally, there are some logisitics around being able to accurately do this.
Hi,
When i added following url from facebook i am unable to get videos. I request you is it possible to get video with like this urls. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=40110844338
Abr, this specific url requires user authentication to Facebook, currently we only embed for links that are publicly accessible.
@Art:
Re your message on April 30, do you have any progress on Snotr.com support? Please let me know if you need any help with this.
Thanks!
Niek, looks simple enough, I'll try to add support by next week. Sorry for the delay.
We now support snotr.com, http://api.embed.ly/embed?url=http://www.snotr.com/video/6351/Aweso...
Enjoy! cc:Niek
Currently, IMDB videos do not work as embeds. If you find otherwise, please feel free to submit a ticket.
It would be cool if you could add a provider for magnatune.com albums. Magnatune does not provide an oembed endpoint, so one has to write a small wrapper reading the album page. So the URL schema would be:
http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/*
You need to load the album page (e.g. http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/sieber-hidden/) in order to find the artist name and url (the link containing the artist name and linking to his/her page has the properties rel="cc:attributionURL" and property="cc:attributionName") and the album name (which is the i element following the artist link). Using this the embed code and thumbnail URL can be build.
Thumbnail URL example:
http://he3.magnatune.com/music/Jami%20Sieber/Hidden%20Sky/cover_100... (100x100 pixels album cover)
An embed code example for a flash element that plays the album can be found here:
http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/sieber-hidden/embed
It would be really great if this would be supported! :)
Also support for OpenStreetMap would be great. They don't habe an oEmbed endpoint either, but here everything should be calculable from the URL. Provided one knows how. But OSM is open source and also has a stackoverflow like help page for developers:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
http://help.openstreetmap.org/
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/
Please add our service http://www.iradeo.com
http://www.iradeo.com/api/documentation
Thanks
Also http://www.own3d.tv/ support would be nice.
Example link: http://www.own3d.tv/watch/77013
Embed code can be found there under the video.
Hi Sean
If it is not too much trouble can you add OWJO support
URL Scheme:
http://app.owjo.com/catalog/item/*
API Endpoint:
http://app.owjo.com/oembed
Example:
http://app.owjo.com/oembed?url=http://app.owjo.com/catalog/item/15697&maxwidth=510&maxheight=600&format=json
Many thanks
David
Hey David,
Why don't you email me off list at sean@embed.ly we can talk about it.
I'm going to close this thread, as it's becoming to unwieldy to manage. We will start a new one.
Sean