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oEMBED: A new standard for embedding content on to a page

January 11th, 2010 by

{{chris}} oEMBED is a really interesting API making it easier to embed 3rd party content onto your website.

You can read more about it on their website http://www.oembed.com/. In a nutshell the API allows you to paste a URL to a resource such as a YouTube video into your WordPress page – and it will automatically add the embed code when the page is rendered. This saves you the trouble of having to grab the embed code yourself.

We’ll be thinking of some creative ways to use this over the next little while. If you have some ideas I’d love to hear them, so please post your comments!

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18 Comments

  1. Iphone Apps Developer, January 12, 2010:

    Well this is really good. Oembed is really good for embessing content on to a page.

  2. Chris, January 12, 2010:

    Nice. This will be helpful as I am using Flickr for a slideshow today.

  3. Scooter, January 13, 2010:

    Just looked into their website. Very good API for coders like me. Thanks for sharing them here. I’ll try this tonight on a page. Thanks.

  4. Facebook Service, January 15, 2010:

    Really great info. I was not even know it

  5. Hurtige laan, January 22, 2010:

    Nice article you have written there.

  6. John MCain SEO, January 23, 2010:

    Being a blog writer myself, I really appreciate the time you took in wriitng this article. I am currently reading it on my Blackberry and will scan it once I get home.

  7. Web Templates, January 25, 2010:

    Interesting I had not seen this previously will be interesting to see how quickly this adopted.

  8. Webhotel, January 29, 2010:

    Your idea is interesting but I need a specific platform to implement this. I will bookmark it and will try to implement them at the earliest.

  9. Bethy, February 3, 2010:

    Oembed is great website! Contains many useful information!

  10. Sinead, February 8, 2010:

    Great tool. I’m going to test this out and see how it goes. Thanks for the info!

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  12. Thanks, February 15, 2010:

    Thank You for all the interesting article. They really helped me a lot! You just got a new subscriber now!

  13. Car Audio Stereo, March 5, 2010:

    Oembed really helped me much, thanks for sharing this great information.

  14. Chase, March 6, 2010:

    That sounds like a great feature, can’t wait to see it.

  15. o Aprendiz, March 12, 2010:

    Great information! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. Thanks! Roberto Justus

  16. Görsel Sanatlar Dergisi, March 14, 2010:

    Very nice idea.

  17. Ballina Accommodation, March 17, 2010:

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  18. Visual Arts Magazine, March 17, 2010:

    Great post. Thanx for sharing.

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