[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #49850: Adding Anghami to the list of oembed providers

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#49850: Adding Anghami to the list of oembed providers
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 Reporter:  azizantoun                     |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement                    |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                         |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Embeds                         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch reporter-feedback  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by azizantoun):

 Hello,

 Thank you for getting back to me. I will write the answers in the comment
 box is that enough?

 **Is the service is popular enough for core developers to have heard of it
 before? Is it “mainstream?**

 Anghami is the leading music streaming service in the middle east with
 more than 80 million users. We have a catalogue of millions f arabic and
 international songs and music videos. Anghami also has series/movies and
 podcasts. You can check www.anghami.com for more details.

 **If similar services are already supported, how does this service compare
 in terms of size, features, and backing?**

 Spotify and Deezer are similar services. The main difference is that
 Anghami provides music videos and series. Anghami also has stories, chats
 and other social feature that differentiates it from any other music
 streaming service.

 **Does this service have a large following on Twitter, Facebook, or other
 social media?  Is its Twitter account verified?**
 Yes Anghami has millions of followers on social networks.
 https://twitter.com/anghami
 https://facebook.com/anghami
 https://instagram.com/anghami

 **Is its oEmbed endpoint clearly established and properly documented?
 (Sometimes, they are just a developer’s pet project that may not be
 supported.)
 Yes, our media pages (song,album,playlist,artist,profile) support oembed.
 The Oembed url points to our custom built widget.
 example: https://widget.anghami.com/playlist/5890887

 **Does the oEmbed endpoint work with WordPress’ oEmbed auto-discovery? If
 not, could it be made to work with additional HTML tags or attributes
 being whitelisted?

 On our blog it's working after manually adding anghami to the list of
 oembed providers using the following method: wp_oembed_add_provider.
 Here's a live article showing our widget loaded via oembed.
 https://talks.anghami.com/anghami-how-we-shifted-to-work-from-home-on-
 covid19-with-little-notice/

 **Does the service make an effort to build relationships with developers,
 such as through robust APIs?**

 We have recently opened our APIs to the public to allow developer and
 interns to use our data and create projects around music

 **How old is the service?

 Anghami was founded in 2011 and launched the first beta app in 2012

 **Does it have a well-established Wikipedia article?**

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anghami

 **Has anyone written a WordPress plugin that leverages the service in some
 way, whether adding it as an oEmbed provider, creating a shortcode, or
 leveraging other APIs of the service? Do these plugins have any noticeable
 adoption or traction that would indicate usage and demand?

 Not yet

 **Is the provider frequently proposed?

 Lots of articles in the middle east talk about Anghami and share news
 related to the music industry. Currently publishers get their embed code
 from www.anghami.com/embed and paste the iframe in their wordpress
 articles. By whitelisting Anghami the process will become easier for them,
 pasting the link should load the widget similar to any other service.
 Currently we have thousands of daily visits to our widgets embdded on
 hundreds of articles


 I hope my answers were clear. Looking forward to your feedback.

 Replying to [comment:1 swissspidy]:
 > Hi there
 >
 > Would you be able to help us fill out the required information as per
 https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/contribute/design-decisions
 /#whitelisting-oembed-providers?

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