Since the video sharing phenomenon began, many web developers struggle with the problem of embeding the videos without knowing anything but the url where the video page is. Many users didn’t know anything about embed code, how to put videos on their blog or other tehnical stuff like that, so developers tried to find ways of getting the video embed code from url.
The solution was to parse the html of that page, to look for the <embed> tag. However this solution was not very reliable, because any change to the html of the video website, would mess the parsing, making this method to not work anymore.
Fortunetlly, recently, a new format appear: oembed . There are a number of video sharing sites already implementing this service like:
- youtube.com
- dailymotion.com
- vimeo.com
- blip.tv
- hulu.com
- viddler.com
- revision3.com
- qik.com
- scribd.com
- wordpress.tv
- tare.ro
additionally oohembed attempt to offer this functionality for other sites.
So, with this script, we can transform the url that user enters in the text box, into a nice little embed code to put in our site:
<?php $oembedUrls = array ( 'www.youtube.com' => 'http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=$1&format=json', 'www.dailymotion.com' => 'http://www.dailymotion.com/api/oembed?url=$1&format=json', 'www.vimeo.com' => 'http://vimeo.com/api/oembed.xml?url=$1&format=json', 'www.blip.tv' => 'http://blip.tv/oembed/?url=$1&format=json', 'www.hulu.com' => 'http://www.hulu.com/api/oembed?url=$1&format=json', 'www.viddler.com' => 'http://lab.viddler.com/services/oembed/?url=$1&format=json', 'www.qik.com' => 'http://qik.com/api/oembed?url=$1&format=json', 'www.revision3.com' => 'http://revision3.com/api/oembed/?url=$1&format=json', 'www.scribd.com' => 'http://www.scribd.com/services/oembed?url=$1&format=json', 'www.wordpress.tv' => 'http://wordpress.tv/oembed/?url=$1&format=json', 'www.5min.com' => 'http://www.oohembed.com/oohembed/?url=$1', 'www.collegehumor.com' => 'http://www.oohembed.com/oohembed/?url=$1', 'www.thedailyshow.com' => 'http://www.oohembed.com/oohembed/?url=$1', 'www.funnyordie.com' => 'http://www.oohembed.com/oohembed/?url=$1', 'www.livejournal.com' => 'http://www.oohembed.com/oohembed/?url=$1', 'www.metacafe.com' => 'http://www.oohembed.com/oohembed/?url=$1', 'www.xkcd.com' => 'http://www.oohembed.com/oohembed/?url=$1', 'www.yfrog.com' => 'http://www.oohembed.com/oohembed/?url=$1' ); ?> <html> <head> </head> <body> <form name="oembed_form" action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post"> <input type="text" name="url" value="<?=$_POST['url']?>" size="50"> <input type="submit" name="Show" value="Show Video"> </form> <? if (!empty($_POST['url'])){ $parts = parse_url($_POST['url']); $host = $parts['host']; if (empty($host) || !array_key_exists($host,$oembedUrls)){ echo 'Unrecognized host'; } else { $oembedContents = @file_get_contents(str_replace('$1',$_POST['url'],$oembedUrls[$host])); $oembedData = @json_decode($oembedContents); $embedCode = $oembedData->html; echo "Embed code for <a href='".$_POST['url']."' target='_blank'>".$_POST['url']."</a> :<br>".$embedCode; } } ?>
If you want you can test the script here
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I don’t say this often… But I love you! I was trying to do something for the hulu videos and never worked. Thank you!
Hi, thanks for this quite easy and fast solution. Do you have any solution to pass an autoplay to TRUE in the code ?
Also, vimeo links don’t work for me with this process !
great work..
can you help me to do the same thing but to get the video thumbnail
i need something to get (youtube & metacafe &..)videos thumbnail
i trying use this ..but didn’t work well ..
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$thumbnail_of_youtube = getinput($youtube_url);
// The thumbnail image of Youtube always has a pattern like this : http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/[videoid]/default.jpg
echo ‘‘;
?>
so can any one help me please ..
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