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oEmbed in Link Entities #172

Closed edent closed 11 years ago

edent commented 12 years ago

May of the links that people post have eEmbed data associated with them. (http://oembed.com/)

For example, a YouTube page has information about thumbnails, embedable media, etc. E.g. http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DD7hkukXrPx0&format=json

Currently, I use a 3rd party service like Embed.ly to get oEmbed information from URLs posted to App.net.

I would like that information returned in an entity from the App.net API.

ie.

"links": [{
    "text": "Cool video",
    "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D7hkukXrPx0"
    "pos": 20,
    "len": 13
    "oembed": [{
        "thumbnail": "http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDTalentSearch",
        "html": "<iframe width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/D7hkukXrPx0?fs=1&feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>",
        ***etc***
    }]
}]

Or is this something better suited to annotations?

edent commented 12 years ago

Well, it's now in annotations - if a client supplies it: https://github.com/appdotnet/api-spec/blob/master/annotations.md#embedded-media

orianmarx commented 11 years ago

This is something we probably won't do for a long, long time if at all so I'm closing the thread. As you've noted, clients can supply this data themselves when making posts.