Transforming URLs into rich content with Plack, AnyEvent, and Javascript

By JT Smith on March 17, 2012 2:00 AM

Lee Aylward will be giving a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:

After investigating oEmbed, I came to the conclusion that oEmbed is a great idea, but difficult to use in practice. oEmbed providers are inconsistent and unreliable. So I built Noembed, a consistent oEmbed gateway to a large list of sites (many that don’t even support oEmbed themselves.)

Noembed was built using a mix of Plack and AnyEvent. It is used by us at Ars Technica, and will soon be used by a fairly popular Twitter client.

I’ll give a quick overview of the oEmbed spec, show some of the Noembed internals, and then do short demo.

* http://www.oembed.com/

* http://noembed.com

* https://github.com/leedo/noembed

[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]