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Sean Creeley
suggested this on March 28, 2010 18:37

Let us know which services we should add next.

 

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Bill Creswell

I love it! I wouldn't mind seeing TrailerSpy and Overstream support...

April 25, 2010 21:14
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Sean Creeley
embed.ly

Added them today. Thanks!

April 26, 2010 21:03
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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
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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
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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.

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...)

April 28, 2010 14:42
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Niek

Snotr.com support would be great! 

April 30, 2010 17:49
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Art
embed.ly

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

 

 

April 30, 2010 18:38
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Art
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Niek,

I'll take a look at snotr.com, nice name!

April 30, 2010 18:39
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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...

http://www.zapiks.com/kitesurf-revolve.html

April 30, 2010 18:40
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Abhinav Saxena

Wow! didn't know you already had support for flickr photo sets. Great.

May 01, 2010 06:07
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Jarred Bishop

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> 

May 01, 2010 20:28
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Robert Sanchez

Please add status.net accounts to your list. Mine is http://robsanchez.status.net

May 05, 2010 21:31
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Gregg Fuller

How about atom.com?

May 06, 2010 20:15
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Art
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May 07, 2010 10:18
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Trevor Turk

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!

May 18, 2010 18:14
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Art
embed.ly

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
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Kris Keener

Phanfare slideshows.

May 26, 2010 14:35
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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
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Sean Creeley
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@EvilDead Thanks! I don't see any url examples for Watuki though. What would they look like?

May 31, 2010 23:27
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EvilDead

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

 

June 02, 2010 11:12
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Pascal Rettig

Support for Dropbox photo albums would be great - we had the request from two separate clients

June 03, 2010 16:26
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Sean Creeley
embed.ly

@Pascal. Good one. Can you send us some example urls?

June 03, 2010 16:51
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Pascal Rettig
June 03, 2010 16:59
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Sean Creeley
embed.ly

Thanks!

June 03, 2010 16:59
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Jordan Running

deviantART would be a nice addition. http://deviantart.com/

June 17, 2010 16:58
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Jordan Running

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.

June 17, 2010 17:13
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Matt Cooney
June 30, 2010 00:37
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Matt Cooney
June 30, 2010 21:39
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Nelson Fernandez

tinypic ,  youtube playlist support

fixes needed: imgur and worldstarhiphop

July 01, 2010 16:00
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Nelson Fernandez

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
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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
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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.

July 01, 2010 19:35
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Sean Creeley
embed.ly

@Nelson Ok, What urls are you seeing do this?

July 01, 2010 19:37
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Nelson Fernandez
July 01, 2010 19:37
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Art
embed.ly

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

July 06, 2010 12:22
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James Patterson

pastie.org and pastebin.com

July 11, 2010 18:08
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Art
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July 12, 2010 12:00
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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
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Art
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Jordan, send me a quick support ticket and we can try to get them fixed today.

July 12, 2010 12:20
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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.

July 12, 2010 15:31
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James Patterson
July 20, 2010 01:56
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James Patterson

Embedable charts from Compete.com and Quantcast.com

http://www.quantcast.com/hulu.com

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/hulu.com/

July 20, 2010 13:53
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James Patterson
July 23, 2010 14:19
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Daniel Pollard
August 05, 2010 21:11
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Art
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August 09, 2010 12:24
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Felix Böhm

I would love to see support for Amazon.de, the german version.

August 14, 2010 19:40
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Glenn Chase

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).

August 21, 2010 23:54
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Ben Rogmans

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!

August 31, 2010 14:36
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FLX
September 14, 2010 16:47
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FLX

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?

September 14, 2010 17:19
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Fizz

Newtwitter doesn't embed like old Twitter. See e.g. http://twitter.com/#!/gruber/status/26852970183

October 09, 2010 14:50
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Fizz

Please support embedding IMDB links. E.g. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804497/

October 09, 2010 14:55
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Fizz

Please also add support for embedding (say) the first or summary paragraph of Wikipedia articles. And a pony. Thanks!

October 09, 2010 19:39
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Art
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October 09, 2010 19:46
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Art
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October 09, 2010 19:49
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Fizz

Wow, thanks! What's the regular expression for those URLs? I didn't see Wikipedia listed on the generator.

October 09, 2010 19:50
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Fizz

You guys are amazing.

October 09, 2010 19:54
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Fizz
October 09, 2010 20:08
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Art
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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.

October 09, 2010 20:16
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Fizz

Please support embedding video from southparkstudios.com. E.g. http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/104274/what-scientologist-act...

October 11, 2010 19:26
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Fizz

Please add support for videos from MediaMatters. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201010110037

October 11, 2010 21:50
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Nachiket Karve
October 14, 2010 03:13
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Fizz

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.

October 25, 2010 07:06
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Fizz

Twitter seems to have stopped working. E.g. http://twitter.com/#!/Remiel/status/27860457639

October 26, 2010 04:06
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Ben Rogmans

Support for http://www.fotopedia.com/ would be awesome; they've got great content :)

 

And thanks for Radionomy support!!

October 26, 2010 09:01
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Art
embed.ly

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

October 26, 2010 10:48
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Pedro Valente

 

(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.
Thanks! (congrats for a great service, btw)

(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)

 

November 12, 2010 14:22
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Art
embed.ly

Feel free to put any issues in a support ticket. Make sure you escape urls before sending to Embedly.

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November 13, 2010 10:37
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J. L. Gatewood

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)

 

 

 

November 21, 2010 02:38
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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?

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/

November 22, 2010 05:02
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Art
embed.ly

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.

December 09, 2010 11:51
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Abr

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

December 13, 2010 02:50
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Art
embed.ly

Abr, this specific url requires user authentication to Facebook, currently we only embed for links that are publicly accessible.

December 13, 2010 13:09
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Niek

@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!

January 26, 2011 17:31
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Art
embed.ly

Niek, looks simple enough, I'll try to add support by next week. Sorry for the delay.

January 26, 2011 17:35
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Art
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January 31, 2011 15:09
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Ben Rogmans
Snotr support is cool. What about imdb?
February 06, 2011 12:00
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Art
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Currently, IMDB videos do not work as embeds. If you find otherwise, please feel free to submit a ticket.

February 07, 2011 12:33
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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:

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! :)

February 14, 2011 20:14
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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:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/

http://help.openstreetmap.org/

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/

February 16, 2011 01:02
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Gerald Hrant
February 17, 2011 17:07
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Mathias Panzenböck

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.

February 24, 2011 16:32
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David Johnston

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

March 08, 2011 05:03
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Sean Creeley
embed.ly

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

March 08, 2011 09:10
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