[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21632: Adding Imgur as an oEmbed provider

Thu Feb 6 23:07:27 UTC 2014

#21632: Adding Imgur as an oEmbed provider
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 Reporter:  bradparbs                |       Owner:  markjaquith
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  3.9
Component:  Embeds                   |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-refresh  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by nacin):

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 {{{
 5:55    nacin   Hello, I have a question about imgur's oEmbed endpoint. I
 found http://api.imgur.com/oembed but I can't find any documentation or
 announcement on it anywhere. Is this a supported API?
 5:57    nacin   I found http://imgur.userecho.com/topic/53378-any-plan-to-
 provide-oembed-api-interface/ with a reply from two years ago saying it'll
 be added, along with an announcement. This endpoint has been functional
 for at least 18 months best I can tell, and within that timeframe at one
 point it was updated to more properly follow one of the oEmbed spec
 parameters, so it seems to be maintained, but I am not sure.
 5:57    nacin   Couldn't find an announcement on the blog, or
 documentation on the API site, or any chatter about it in the google
 group.
 5:59    nacin   FWIW, I'm a lead developer of WordPress — thanks for using
 us for your blog; it could use an update though :-). We only like adding
 oEmbed providers when we know they're not likely to disappear or break.
 (Twitter likes to mess with us). So this is background research.
 6:01            DrGrim entered the room.
 6:03    DrGrim  nacin: it's still supported
 6:03    DrGrim  i actually updated it a few months ago
 6:03    DrGrim  it's also in the <head> of our site
 6:03    nacin   DrGrim: any plans to document and/or ditch it?
 6:03    nacin   oh, good to know!
 6:04    nacin   it wasn't obeying maxwidth when images were narrower than
 the maximum requested width, I imagine that's one of the things you fixed
 6:04    DrGrim  definitly not ditching it. I didn't actually think it
 needed documentation because scrappers and such pick it up from the source
 code
 6:04    DrGrim  yeah, i rewrote the it all. hopefully it works now :)
 }}}

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