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oEmbed

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.

Full Spec

This spec is broken into three parts – configuration, the consumer request and the provider response.

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 web site, such as a photo or an embedded video. A provider implements the oEmbed API to allow consumers to fetch that representation.

oEmbed providers can choose to make their oEmbed support discoverable by adding elements to the head of their existing (X)HTML documents.

Example :
Providers: Youtube.com

URL: http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYMMv_JN3e0&feature=fvhl&format=xml

Response:

http://www.youtube.com/ Lord Balram & Krishna – Part 1 – Animated Short Stories
<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/iYMMv_JN3e0&fs=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/iYMMv_JN3e0&fs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true”></embed></object>
RajshriKids
344

480 425
1.0
http://www.youtube.com/user/RajshriKids

YouTube http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/iYMMv_JN3e0/hqdefault.jpg video

360

For complete information,please read the reference url below:
oEmbed: http://www.oembed.com/

Supported OEmbed providers¶

* 5min
* Amazon Product Images
* Flickr
* Google Video
* Hulu
* Imdb
* Metacafe
* Myspace Videos
* Qik
* Revision3
* Screenr
* Slideshare
* Twitpic
* Viddler
* Vimeo
* Wikipedia
* WordPress
* YouTube