Embedly Proxy

A simple python/flask app which proxies requests to the embed.ly service and masks the application API key.

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API Interface

Extract V1

This V1 API is no longer supported.

Fetch Metadata V2

Fetch metadata for a provided list of URLs from remote metadata services.

• Service URLs

  • Embedly

  • https://embedly-proxy.services.mozilla.com/v2/extract

  • Mozilla

  • https://embedly-proxy.services.mozilla.com/v2/metadata

• Method:

  POST

• URL Params

  None

• Data Params

  • urls

  The POST body must be a JSON encoded dictionary with one key: urls which contains a list of URLs to be queried. A maximum of 25 URLs may be submitted in one request.

  ex:

  { urls: [ "https://www.mozilla.org/", "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript" ] }

• Request Headers

  The POST body must be a JSON encoded dictionary.

  content-type: application/json

• Success Response:

  • Code: 200

  JSON encoding

  { urls: { "": , "": , }, error: "" }

  ex success:

  { urls: { "https://www.mozilla.org": {

  }, error: "" } ex failure: { urls: {}, error: "The Content-Type header must be set to application/json" }

• Error Responses:

  • Code: 400

  The server received a malformed request.

  • Code: 500

  The server was unable to satisfy the request.

• Sample Call:

  curl -X POST -d '{"urls":["https://www.mozilla.org"]}' -H 'content-type:application/json' https://embedly-proxy.services.mozilla.com/v2/metadata