oEmbed
Infrastructure
embed api
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#421of 1,739 in 2013
Top 25%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
2 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.
Pricing: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful and worth using
From 2 comments
Awesome - definitely going to use this. Congrats on the front page HN launch the week before Startup School!
_nvs on HNAnything that further pushes and supports oEmbed is a great thing. It would be nice to see a list of what providers you support -- I don't want to callback every URL in a blog…
justinph on HN
Objections
Free promise seems unsustainable
From 1 comment
I don't want to sound like I'm being negative because this is really cool. When you promise that it will always be free, my immediate thought is that it's unsustainable. You're…
ryanackley on HN
No rate limiting yet
From 1 comment
I completely understand where you are coming from -- Just had this conversation with someone over twitter. oEmbed is a standard, and I really think there are a lot of cool things…
samsnelling on HN
Requests
List of supported providers
From 2 comments
Anything that further pushes and supports oEmbed is a great thing. It would be nice to see a list of what providers you support -- I don't want to callback every URL in a blog…
justinph on HNI believe embedly exposes a list of regular expressions for matching URLs -- if you would share your regexes that be very helpful to library developers.
coleifer on HN
Provider URL regular expressions
From 1 comment
I believe embedly exposes a list of regular expressions for matching URLs -- if you would share your regexes that be very helpful to library developers.
coleifer on HN
Server-side and mobile libraries
From 2 comments
Awesome! I've updated my profile with the email. I think also a server-side library would be useful. You might think to use a service like Mashape to avoid the problem of…
ecesena on HNAny js library such as [1]? In our service we're oembedding external content but we're a bit frustrated as often things stop working and maintaining the js library is an extra…
ecesena on HN
Show actual embedded content like playable videos
From 1 comment
Would be interesting to see the actual contents (playable videos, etc.) too.
marveller on HN
Questions
Will the service stay free long term?
From 1 comment
I don't want to sound like I'm being negative because this is really cool. When you promise that it will always be free, my immediate thought is that it's unsustainable. You're…
ryanackley on HN
Alternatives named
Embed.ly
From 2 comments
I don't want to sound like I'm being negative because this is really cool. When you promise that it will always be free, my immediate thought is that it's unsustainable. You're…
ryanackley on HNI completely understand where you are coming from -- Just had this conversation with someone over twitter. oEmbed is a standard, and I really think there are a lot of cool things…
samsnelling on HN
Iframely
From 2 comments
I like the concepts behind iframely better than those behind oEmbed, because you get an iframe URL, which is safer to embed than 3rd party HTML and you can change the size of the…
panzi on HNThanks for the mention (and contributing) Mathias. A quick clarification: #1: our endpoint is "community" one. It's free and open for dev purposes, but it's not suggested for…
iparamonau on HN
Mashape
From 2 comments
https://www.mashape.com/snellingio/oembed-io-1#!documentation
ismaelc on HNAwesome! I've updated my profile with the email. I think also a server-side library would be useful. You might think to use a service like Mashape to avoid the problem of…
ecesena on HN