oEmbed

oEmbed is an open format designed to allow embedding content from a website into another page.

The specification was created by Cal Henderson, Leah Culver, Mike Malone, and Richard Crowley in 2008.

[1] It is used by companies like Twitter to make tweets embeddable in blog posts[2] and by blogging platforms like Medium to allow content authors to include those snippets.

A provider implements the oEmbed API to allow consumers to fetch that representation.

The following software is able to embed content from websites that support oEmbed: