Does facebook support oEmbed?

facebook oembed
Aravindan R picture Aravindan R · Apr 22, 2011 · Viewed 8.1k times · Source

Anyone know whether Facebook supports oEmbed for embedding videos (or other media) when a link is shared. I googled but cant get a definitive answer for this.

My question Facebook developer forum has no answer. http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?pid=334549

Answer

Yacoub Oweis picture Yacoub Oweis · Nov 24, 2015

Yes Facebook supports oembed. You can checkout the documentation here..

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/oembed-endpoints

Note: In order to make this API work properly with ajax calls on mobile devices; You need to use the endpoint domain "apps.facebook.com" instead of "www.facebook.com":

https://apps.facebook.com/plugins/post/oembed.json/?url={content-url}

This is because if you use the endpoint that is provided in the official documentation "www.facebook.com" the User agent of the mobile devices will force the redirect to "m.facebook.com" which does not have this endpoint implemented.

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