WordPress.com oEmbed Provider API Now Available
Last week, we introduced support for OAuth2 and launched develop.wordpress.com, as we’re eager to empower the developer community to extend WordPress.com in new and meaningful ways.
Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of our new oEmbed Provider API, yet another way to make it easy for third-party services and their respective audiences to share and consume content.
oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third-party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.
Same post, multiple formats
The API supports any WordPress.com URL, any WordPress.com-hosted domain or subdomain (EG: http://techcrunch.com/, http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/) as well as WP.me shortlinks pointing to WordPress.com-hosted sites.
Hop over to develop.wordpress.com and see the oEmbed Provider API documentation for more information. Keep impressing the world with innovative ways to use the wonderful breadth of content created by our millions of talented bloggers!
- July 14, 2011
- New Features
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I love the way the content sharing features are being embraced by WP!
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Thank you! We love to see what other developers come up with, and our stats keep telling us how much our users like having their (public) content shared in as many meaningful ways as possible. 🙂
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Awesome update!
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Pretty good method to allow to allow sharing of video on non-youtube site.
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looks like very powerful API.. I will use this API on my tech blogs 🙂
One quick question, what if a url contain 5 or 10 posts, will this API embed all the posts?
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This only works on single posts, pages or attachments,
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simply wow!
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I love this! Thanks!
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Thanks for support
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Cool. Can’t wait to try it out. Thanks
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Great job! Keep going and I want to see this works for everyone!
Thanks WP.com! 😀
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MAY GOD BLESS YOU!! 😀
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wordpress finding new ways!
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Openness for the win!
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There’s nothing like it. 😀
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Nice. WordPress is really going for extension.
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Must try it..
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Good Job!
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couldn’t understand how to use it on my wordpress.com blog.
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This is a developer resource, for them to start building new and innovative tools for you to use in the future. 🙂
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Really nice update Thanks for making WP more user friendly……. keep up the good work
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Well done
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Cool feature. Is this only for wordpress.com hosted sites? Can I use it running my own local instance of WP?
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Not yet, but we’re working on this. 🙂
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I don’t understand about that…!
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See http://develop.wordpress.com/oembed-provider-api/ (software developer feature).
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This is awesome!
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Thanks for all the new features!
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Great! 🙂
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None of my subscriptions are coming in notify me new post and notify me new comments. Settings at notify me instantly. Nobody understands problem. Can you help please.
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Please contact support, our happiness engineers will be happy to help: https://wordpress.com/support/contact/
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Wonder if this will let some smart developer to come up with a way to output a blog (including photos etc) to a printable format, such as PDF? Being able to backup ones blog has been around for ages, but I’d like to be able to print the content/transfer it to Word or sim to look at repurposing some of the content to book (either paper or electronic).
Irrespective, fascinated to see what app developers can do with these tools. Boosting readership is fundamental to the whole blogging experience. It isn’t just a matter of build it and they will come.
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A very insightful comment. Thanks for taking the time to share. 🙂
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I appreciate all the work that goes into this site what a great tool!
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Is it possible to use this API with App Inventor?
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I don’t see them supporting oEmbed as of this posting.
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now wp can be a platform for even more third party ads: hulu et al
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must have a try! Thanks !
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Wow! This is awesome! 🙂
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I really don’t even understand that. I guess I’m too old. Ha!
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Wow! Embed is all I was lacking in WP…. now I am good to go! Thank you… Cheers to more BLOGGING!
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