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Embedly (YC W10) Raises Another $450K, Launches One API To Rule All Embeds

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Is there such a thing as a library that abstracts away the differences between the JavaScript APIs of common embedded video players (YouTube, Vimeo, etc)?

This could be useful if I've embedded a player with embed.ly and then want to control it from elsewhere on the page (say, have a big "play" button somewhere).

I've written a library that does that (just play/pause/stop/mute/unmute for now) for a Chrome extension that I am working on to provide uniform audio controls to Google Chrome. (http://www.mutetab.com)

I haven't decided yet, but I am leaning toward open sourcing it.

http://www.oembed.com/ does same thing I think , for free.

oEmbed is a spec. That site does nothing.

Great news, congratulations!

Embedly seems like a great service. I haven't started using it yet, but it's definitely on my roadmap of things to do. A service that does a simple but incredibly important thing for you, without you having to worry about it.

i made a mashup using embedly a while ago -- it's cool because if you have a forum, you can use embedly to automatically embed all links etc and produce the cool dynamic experience of an image board / video site without any of the hassle

"If you are an existing api.embed.ly user, you can sign up for an API key here." http://app.embed.ly/pricing/free

From the embedly blog

I don't get it. Why would I want to use them instead of embedding directly?

i believe reddit uses them: 1. a user creates a new post with a link that goes on youtube/vimeo/whatever 2. use embedly api to extract the video/thumbnail and show it in your site. At reddit there is a |> button to press and u can see the video. For example check this page: http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/

Every site is different and some don't even offer oEmbed. A ton of work has gone into embedly. You can repeat the effort, and host your own solution, or just use us. We think using Embedly is a cheaper solution.

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