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Embedly Pro Lets Your App Embed Content From Any Link

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

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.

Thanks for the quick response!

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.

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.

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.

Yes.

I make about £3k per month off a site that I set up for my own amusement and time-wasting. 6 million page views per month, I'm only signed up to 4 affiliate schemes. Amazon pay the worst of all of them, that's true.

It's a side project, but for something that I only do out of love £3k per month is quite tidy.

Edit: I guess what I'm saying is that you could take skimlinks and knock them for six, and people would have a real benefit and reason to use embedly whereas skimlinks milk far too much and it's not even got a user benefit.

PS: Are you hiring remote workers? I know how to make this work ;)

Interesting, I guess we are doing it wrong. I see what you are saying about skimlinks, we have received this advice in the past. It's just not something we are looking into now.

We might be up for a commission based remote worker. :)

Seriously consider it.

Hit me on email and I'll tell you more detail: david @ buro9.com

There are a couple of specifics to get right, mostly it's about giving a reason for webmasters to use it and what is massively under-estimated is that a lot of webmasters hang out places just like this and are asking for solutions to both embedding stuff and earning money.

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

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

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

Missed opportunity.

Very interesting, thanks for the link :)

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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