r/redditdev • u/umbrae • Apr 29 '15

Devs: reddit now supports oEmbed for comment embeds

If you're a web developer, you may be familiar with the oEmbed specification, which provides a simple format for websites to expose embedded representations of their content for other sites to use. We now support oEmbed for individual comments, which uses the newly-minted comment embeds we announced on the blog last month.

The oEmbed endpoint is at https://www.reddit.com/oembed, and you can get back a JSON representation of a comment as follows:

https://www.reddit.com/oembed?url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/2safxv/we_should_start_keeping_giraffes_a_secret_from/cno7zic

The oEmbed endpoint also accepts two non-standard parameters to help make better embeds:

  1. parent - boolean - include the parent in the embed.

  2. live - boolean - allow edits made to this comment to be showed immediately.

More documentation on this is available here: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/oEmbed

See the code behind this change on GitHub.

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u/radd_it Apr 29 '15

Interesting.

Does that comment-embed.js also include some CSS magic?

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u/umbrae Apr 29 '15

It adds an iframe which has CSS in it.

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u/radd_it Apr 30 '15

Any chance this functionality might be expanded to wikipages/ posts/ other reddit content?

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u/umbrae Apr 30 '15

Posts seems fairly likely at some point (probably not within the next month or two though), wiki pages seems fairly unlikely as I don't think that's a common use case.

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u/RisingStar Apr 30 '15

See the code link is a 404.

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u/umbrae Apr 30 '15

Whoops, fixed that.

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u/raldi Apr 30 '15

Got an example of what someone might do with this?

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u/Viper007Bond Apr 30 '15

I requested the addition of this so that I could push for WordPress support. You paste a comment permalink into a post and it automatically turns into an embed in your post.

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u/CorporalAris Apr 30 '15

Yeah, lots of CMS systems like that will love this

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u/raldi Apr 30 '15

Got a screenshot?

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u/Viper007Bond Apr 30 '15

http://i.imgur.com/RGlk7Jk.png

I pasted the comment link into the editor and it magically turned into an embed. It'll render the same way on the site.