Does facebook support oEmbed?

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Anyone know whether Facebook supports oEmbed for embedding videos (or other media) when a link is shared. I googled but cant get a definitive answer for this.

My question Facebook developer forum has no answer. http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?pid=334549

hmmm.. there is no answer here too.. – Aravindan R Apr 22 '11 at 16:58 — Aravindan R, Apr 22 '11 at 16:58

Yacoub Oweis · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-25T22:48:30.900

Yes Facebook supports oembed. You can checkout the documentation here..

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/oembed-endpoints

Note: In order to make this API work properly with ajax calls on mobile devices; You need to use the endpoint domain "apps.facebook.com" instead of "www.facebook.com":

https://apps.facebook.com/plugins/post/oembed.json/?url={content-url}

This is because if you use the endpoint that is provided in the official documentation "www.facebook.com" the User agent of the mobile devices will force the redirect to "m.facebook.com" which does not have this endpoint implemented.

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 11 '19 at 03:27

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Embedly is paid. Free alternative is Noembed. :)

edited Aug 11 '19 at 03:27

Bob Stein

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answered Oct 24 '12 at 14:06

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they are a very interesting choices, but unfortunately, they don't support facebook as they claim – AbdelHady Sep 14 '13 at 21:33
Yeah Noembed doesnt actually support Facebook, see https://noembed.com/providers ctrl-f facebook – edibleEnergy Oct 09 '14 at 11:59
Facebook does support oEmbed now. – Flimm Dec 29 '15 at 16:10

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 05 '11 at 13:32

No, there is no current support for oEmbed. You have two options (maybe more, but two that I know of):

Embedly http://embed.ly/
Engineer yourself an embedding solution for Facebook using the standard form of Facebook video embeds, eg:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=VIDEOID&set=t.SOMENUMBER&type=2

becomes

<object width="400" height="300" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/VIDEOID" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/VIDEOID" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="300"></embed></object>

It seems Facebook does support oEmbed now. – Flimm Dec 29 '15 at 16:10 — Flimm, Dec 29 '15 at 16:10

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 19 '20 at 17:37

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The support is drastically changing in late 2020, to prevent anonymous access, and instead require a developer account and access token. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/oembed

answered Oct 19 '20 at 17:37

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 06 '17 at 10:55

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Yes it does, but has few hiccups when implementing. I'd recommend you to try solution I wrote to overcome this: https://shobhitsharma.github.io/embedo

answered Jul 06 '17 at 10:55

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