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