[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #38181: Add oEmbed support for Amazon Kindle Instant Previews

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#38181: Add oEmbed support for Amazon Kindle Instant Previews
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 Reporter:  jsepia                               |       Owner:  swissspidy
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Future
Component:  Embeds                               |  Release
 Severity:  normal                               |     Version:  4.7
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing has-unit-    |  Resolution:
  tests                                          |     Focuses:
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Comment (by rugved):

 Replying to [comment:29 jbpaul17]:
 > Replying to [comment:28 jsepia]:
 > > We recently added OEmbed support for Amazon URLs. You can embed a
 sample of almost any Kindle book by copying the book's URL from the
 Amazon.com detail page (or Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, etc) and pasting it
 into a blog post. We've been testing this on WordPress.com for about a
 week now and we're seeing quite a bit of usage.
 > >
 > > Regarding non-book products (e.g. a toaster), we haven't converged on
 what the right embed experience is for them, or if they should even be
 embeddable to begin with. For the time being, we believe it's better for
 our users if we just leave the URL untouched.
 > >
 > > I hope this change addresses @swissspidy and @jorbin's concerns
 regarding the usefulness of our oEmbed provider. We will continue to
 improve our service to support more use cases and book formats in the
 future.
 >
 > So is the current request to whitelist the Amazon OEmbed so that `almost
 any Kindle book` will embed the live preview of the book, but no non-book
 products will embed from the URL in a consumer's browser address bar?
 Hello jbpaul17,
 Let me introduce myself, I'm Rugved and I'm teammate of jsepia. I'm taking
 over this WordPress related work from him as he has moved to another team.
 I'll be driving this work henceforth.

 As for your question, yes, once Amazon OEmbed is whitelisted then
 {{{almost any book}}}(''not just Kindle book as we have Kindle previews
 for many print books as well'') will embed the live preview of the book
 when a user pastes the Amazon URL from his browser's address bar into his
 WordPress blog. And non-book products will not embed anything and will
 keep the URL as it is.

 Please let me know if you have any questions. We are really looking
 forward to get this functionality in 4.8 release. We are sure this will
 delight WordPress customers once they see a live preview of their books
 using their Amazon URL.

 Thanks,
 Rugved

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