oEmbed is nice. Unfortunately, not everything supports oEmbed. Worse, the sites that do support it don't provide a consistent interface. Noembed provides a single url to get embeddable content from a large list of sites, even sites without oEmbed support!

Additionally, Noembed guarantees that all responses will have html, title, url, and provider_name fields. This means fewer special cases spent building up your own HTML.

A simple demo is available here.

Usage

Treat Noembed like a regular oEmbed provider, but use any of the supported sites for the url parameter. Noembed also supports a callback parameter for JSONP.

An example request might look like this:

http://noembed.com/embed?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDOYN-6gdRE&callback=my_embed_function

And the response will look like:

my_embed_function(

  {

    "width" : 425,

    "author_name" : "schmoyoho",

    "author_url" : "http://www.youtube.com/user/schmoyoho",

    "version" : "1.0",

    "provider_url" : "http://www.youtube.com/",

    "provider_name" : "YouTube",

    "thumbnail_width" : 480,

    "thumbnail_url" : "http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/bDOYN-6gdRE/hqdefault.jpg",

    "height" : 344,

    "thumbnail_height" : 360,

    "html" : "",

    "url" : "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDOYN-6gdRE",

    "type" : "rich",

    "title" : "Auto-Tune the News #8: dragons. geese. Michael Vick. (ft. T-Pain)"

  }

)

Note: Chrome now blocks insecure scripts from loading on secure sites. So, when using Noembed with JSONP on an https site be sure to use https://noembed.com/embed.

Supported sites

Other

Amazon

iTunes Movie Trailers

Ars Technica

ASCII Art Farts

Bash.org

Beer Advocate

Clickhole

Duffel Blog

Facebook

GiantBomb

Gist

Github Commit

Gfycat

GlobalGiving

iHeartRadio

IMDB

Muki

Monoprice

Nooledge

Spotify

TED

The Onion

TrailerAddict

Twitlonger

Twitter

Urban Dictionary

Vice

Vimeo

Vine

Wikipedia

XKCD

YouTube

Existing oEmbed Sites

Audiomack

Clyp

Flickr

Funny or Die

Hulu

Qik

Rdio

SlideShare

SoundCloud

Spreaker

Viddler

App.Net

Image Sites

CloudApp

Dropbox

Imgur

Imgur

Instagram

Lockerz

Path

Picplz

Skitch

Twitpic

Twitter

YFrog

The /providers endpoint

Noembed provides an endpoint that returns the current list of supported sites. The response is a JSON list with the site name and URL patterns. This can be used to automate testing if a URL is supported by Noembed without making an HTTP request.

Who is using Noembed?

Let us know if you're using noembed in your project!

Ars Technica

Alice – web-based IRC client

StatusNet – private social network

MetroTwit – Windows Twitter client

Reddit Enhancement Suite

Development

All the source code for Noembed is on github. Patches are accepted to add new services.

Similar sites

Oohembed was a very similar service. It even acts as a gateway to non-oEmbed enabled sites like noembed. The main limitation that I encountered was its lack of a guaranteed html field.

embed.ly. I have not tried this service, but it lists support for hundreds of sites. Unfortunately, you can not add your own providers, so you are limited to what they support. Oohembed users are now redirected to embed.ly.