Embedly Pro Lets Your App Embed Content From Any Link

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/embedly-pro-lets-developers-embed-content-from-any-link/

by screeley • 15 years ago

41 19 15 years ago

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citricsquid• 15 years ago

Not mentioned, but reddit use embedly -- thought that might be... interesting?

http://blog.reddit.com/2010/04/now-this-is-how-you-pitch-you...

doki_pen2• 15 years ago

They don't currently use pro, that's why they weren't mentioned.

rhizome• 15 years ago

Missed opportunity.

ZoFreX• 15 years ago

Very interesting, thanks for the link :)

nopal• 15 years ago

50,000 seems like a lot of URLs, especially if an app centralized and can cache its calls to Embedly. $20/month seems more than reasonable for this number of URLs.

buro93• 15 years ago

But why is there even a fee? I mean... there's how many affiliate links that embedly will be picking up as a result and writing as their own... they're earning from your using it... they should be paying you for giving them so much revenue.

screeley4• 15 years ago

Have you ever tried to make money on affilate links? In all honesty we make next to nothing from affiliating Amazon links. It's not even close to a viable business, we only do it because we don't like leaving money on the table.

bhousel2• 15 years ago

Hmm. This would be perfect for a project I'm doing involving Amazon, except that they rewrite my amazon affiliate tag with their own... :-/

screeley4• 15 years ago

Sorry, that's a bug. If the tag is there we should leave it and not add our own.

We will work on fixing that.

bhousel2• 15 years ago

Thanks for the quick response!

jjcm• 15 years ago

Is there a demo/example page? Can't seem to find on on http://pro.embed.ly

doki_pen2• 15 years ago

You can check out http://labs.embed.ly for now. It is built on pro. In the coming week will be releasing and blogging about some more demo apps.

mattthered• 15 years ago

This is awesome! I've been looking for a solution to do this for a while.

nicholaides• 15 years ago

I've been using this for a while in a product I'm developing. One great use case is that it makes it crazy easy for users to embed content.

PanMan• 15 years ago

I haven't found any (documented) limits to their free API. While it doesn't have the new added benefits, will it stay free? Unlimited requests?

screeley4• 15 years ago

api.embed.ly will remain free, but it is a community resource. If someone is abusing it we will ask them to move over to Pro as to not effect the other users. We have not had to ask anyone to move over and don't see it happening in the near future.

It's in our Terms of Service: http://api.embed.ly/terms

Embedly Pro Lets Your App Embed Content From Any Link

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