autoembed

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An autoembed is an embedding of media, typically of an image or video, that was automatically added from a URL to that media, to provide immediate viewing and or direct interaction with that media.

Contents 1 IndieWeb Examples 1.1 Tantek 1.2 ... many more ... 2 Open Source 3 Silo Examples 4 See Also

IndieWeb Examples

Tantek

Tantek Çelik posts plain text notes on tantek.com which autoembed direct links to images (GIF JPG PNG) since at least 2010-06-14, videos (MOV MP4), and video permalinks (YouTube since at least 2010-07-14, Vimeo since at least 2011-01-04) with the CASSIS auto_link function.

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Feel free to add your site if you also support posting of notes with autolinking, and note since when.

Open Source

See CASSIS auto_link function for a fairly good (and selfdogfooded) open source autoembed implementation for PHP&JS.

Silo Examples

Some silos autoembed image/video URLs (e.g. Facebook), some autoembed from links to pages about images/videos, though likely using link-preview technology (Twitter).

See Also

• autolink
• link-preview
• CASSIS