oEmbed

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See the spec: https://oembed.com/

• Add ability for user to provide a way to retrieve oEmbed information and render that? If no other way works out.

oEmbed (Standard / Protocol)

Spec: https://oembed.com
376 registered providers (YouTube, Twitter, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Flickr, Spotify, etc.)

What it is

An open standard where providers expose an endpoint:

GET https://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=<encoded-url>&format=json

Response:

{
  "type": "video",
  "version": "1.0",
  "title": "Amazing Nintendo Facts",
  "author_name": "ZackScott",
  "provider_name": "YouTube",
  "width": 425,
  "height": 344,
  "html": "<iframe ...></iframe>",
  "thumbnail_url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/..."
}

Response types: photo, video, link, rich.