documentation/content/en/methods/oembed.md

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title: oembed API methods description: For generating OEmbed previews. menu: docs:

weight: 110
name: oembed
parent: methods
identifier: methods-oembed

aliases: [ "/methods/oembed", "/api/methods/oembed",

]

Get OEmbed info as JSON {#get}

GET /api/oembed HTTP/1.1

Returns: OEmbed metadata\ OAuth: Public\ Version history:\ 1.0.0 - added

Request

Query parameters

url : {{}} String. URL of a status.

maxwidth : Number. Width of the iframe. Defaults to 400

maxheight : Number. Height of the iframe. Defaults to null

Response

200: OK

Represents OEmbed "rich" preview, with associated iframe and metadata.

{
  "type": "rich",
  "version": "1.0",
  "title": "New status by trwnh",
  "author_name": "infinite love ⴳ",
  "author_url": "https://mastodon.social/@trwnh",
  "provider_name": "mastodon.social",
  "provider_url": "https://mastodon.social/",
  "cache_age": 86400,
  "html": "<iframe src=\"https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/99664077509711321/embed\" class=\"mastodon-embed\" style=\"max-width: 100%; border: 0\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe><script src=\"https://mastodon.social/embed.js\" async=\"async\"></script>",
  "width": 400,
  "height": null
}

404: Not found

Status not found for given URL

{
  "error": "Record not found"
}

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See also

{{< caption-link url="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/controllers/api/oembed_controller.rb" caption="app/controllers/api/oembed_controller.rb" >}}