
Learning oEmbed: Convert Links Into Embedded Content
December 29th, 2009 admin

In this tutorial I want to illustrate how to use oEmbed API to display embedded content (such as Flickr photos, YouTube or Vimeo videos) in your website. What’s oEmbed ? oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites (YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Viddler, …). Where is oEmbed used? Facebook probably has one of the most popular implementation of oEmbed. For example, when you copy a link from YouTube into your status bar, Facebook converts this link into an embedded movie. How you can implement this feature? It’s really simple using jQuery oEmbed an easy to use jQuery plugin that help …
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