This page is a summary of the tools Embedly provides for bloggers and other authors who want to use Embedly without writing code. Developers who want finer-grained access to the Embedly API should start with the Getting Started tutorial.
Ever shared a link on Facebook or Google+? You might enter this:
check this out: http://vimeo.com/18150336
But your friends won’t just see a link. They’ll also see something like this:
The Need 4 Speed: The Art of Flight A collection of shots from flights made during the 2009-2010 season by the talented group of wingsuit basejumpers, while flying the V3, Hybrid LD2/Trango rigs and testing several new V-series wingsuit prototypes around Europe. Feel the need. The need for speed!
That rich HTML preview is called an embed. Embeds can contain any combination of text, images, audio, and video.
Embedly makes it easy to add embeds to your blog posts and web pages, giving your readers a more engaging experience.
If you’re using certain content platforms, you can install a plugin to automatically generate embeds in your posts:
For information on the capabilities of these plugins, see the tools page.
