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 14th, 2011 at 9:20 pm
I love the way the content sharing features are being embraced by WP!
July 14th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
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.
July 14th, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Awesome update!
July 15th, 2011 at 12:06 am
Pretty good method to allow to allow sharing of video on non-youtube site.
July 15th, 2011 at 12:22 am
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?
July 15th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
This only works on single posts, pages or attachments,
July 15th, 2011 at 1:00 am
simply wow!
July 15th, 2011 at 1:03 am
I love this! Thanks!
July 15th, 2011 at 1:40 am
Thanks for support
July 15th, 2011 at 2:07 am
Cool. Can’t wait to try it out. Thanks
July 15th, 2011 at 2:51 am
Great job! Keep going and I want to see this works for everyone!
Thanks WP.com!
July 15th, 2011 at 5:36 am
MAY GOD BLESS YOU!!
July 15th, 2011 at 5:54 am
wordpress finding new ways!
July 15th, 2011 at 6:08 am
Openness for the win!
July 15th, 2011 at 11:13 pm
There’s nothing like it.
July 15th, 2011 at 6:19 am
Nice. WordPress is really going for extension.
July 15th, 2011 at 7:14 am
Must try it..
July 15th, 2011 at 8:21 am
Good Job!
July 15th, 2011 at 8:56 am
couldn’t understand how to use it on my wordpress.com blog.
July 15th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
This is a developer resource, for them to start building new and innovative tools for you to use in the future.
July 15th, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Really nice update Thanks for making WP more user friendly……. keep up the good work
July 15th, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Well done
July 15th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Cool feature. Is this only for wordpress.com hosted sites? Can I use it running my own local instance of WP?
July 15th, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Not yet, but we’re working on this.
July 15th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
I don’t understand about that…!
July 16th, 2011 at 5:17 pm
See http://develop.wordpress.com/oembed-provider-api/ (software developer feature).
July 15th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
This is awesome!
July 15th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Thanks for all the new features!
July 15th, 2011 at 10:49 pm
Great!
July 15th, 2011 at 11:08 pm
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.
July 16th, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Please contact support, our happiness engineers will be happy to help: http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/
July 17th, 2011 at 7:14 am
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.
July 17th, 2011 at 2:31 pm
A very insightful comment. Thanks for taking the time to share.
July 17th, 2011 at 8:15 am
I appreciate all the work that goes into this site what a great tool!
July 17th, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Is it possible to use this API with App Inventor?
July 19th, 2011 at 1:04 am
I don’t see them supporting oEmbed as of this posting.
July 18th, 2011 at 12:37 am
now wp can be a platform for even more third party ads: hulu et al
July 18th, 2011 at 3:02 am
must have a try! Thanks !
July 23rd, 2011 at 10:42 pm
Wow! This is awesome!
July 27th, 2011 at 3:10 am
I really don’t even understand that. I guess I’m too old. Ha!
July 28th, 2011 at 11:04 am
Wow! Embed is all I was lacking in WP…. now I am good to go! Thank you… Cheers to more BLOGGING!