pyoembed's Introduction

pyoembed

A Python library for oEmbed that supports auto-discovered and manually included providers.

Installation

$ pip install pyoembed

Usage

The library provides a function that should be called to automatically embed the url content, and it is called oEmbed:

from pyoembed import oEmbed, PyOembedException

try:
    # maxwidth and maxheight are optional.
    data = oEmbed('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PEdPBEpQfY',
                  maxwidth=640, maxheight=480)
except PyOembedException, e:
    print 'An error was ocurred: %s' % e

# data is a dict with keys that will depends on the media type. You should
# choose how to display the content based on the data['type'] value and
# the oEmbed spec ( http://oembed.com/ ).
if data['type'] == 'video':
    print data['html']

# and it goes... Someday we will provide default renderes for each media
# type.

Addition of new providers

pyoembed tries to cover the major oEmbed providers, and should works for any provider that supports oEmbed auto-discover out-of-the box, however your favorite provider may be unsupported yet! :(

To add it, create a file inside the pyoembed.providers package, based on the following example:

from pyoembed.providers import BaseProvider


class InstagramProvider(BaseProvider):

    # priority of the provider. Increase it if the provider isn't well known
    priority = 10

    # url schemas that are supported by the provider.
    # re.compile'd regex are allowed.
    oembed_schemas = ['http://instagram.com/p/*',
                      'http://instagr.am/p/*']

    # api endpoint that answers to oEmbed requests for the provider.
    oembed_endpoint = 'http://api.instagram.com/oembed'