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For the record, Wordpress and Twitter were never clients.

We were profitable and growing.

Good comment though.

One addition I would add would be to actually link to the service or their status page. If you are going to call them out if their service is down, at least give them something in return, i.e. discovery.

Yes, you can do that. Anyone successfully done this?

Truth. It's a Posterous blog, so I guess we are a little late it switching off them. Here's another cached version that's a little easier to read:

http://embed.ly/docs/explore/article?url=blog.embed.ly/embed...

It's becoming more of an issue now that we are growing.

We have had conversations with the YouTube guys about this and they have asked us to use API's instead of directly scrapping pages.

Quora is currently rate limiting us a ton as well. We again have to directly reach out to them.

Most oEmbed endpoints aren't rate limited because they are generally not resource intensive. They are also meant to be used client side and therefore expect more traffic.

Embedly also does a fair amount of caching that reduces the number of calls that we have to make. This limits us, because we aren't a straight pass through, but helps us handle spikes of traffic.

Updated accordingly. We used floats instead of ints which means that it should have been 21 not 22.

Not seeing it, but I believe you. Can you be a little more specific?

We all need to give hat tips to the people that inspired us to be greater and try new things. We would not be here right now without Fred. I'll put his name in titles all day long just to adknowledge his contributions.

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

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. :)

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.

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.

I see where you are coming from. Our thinking was that RSS was not designed to create an embed from a url, but for feed syndication in a standard format. This is definitely "repurposing" a standard format into an oEmbed type response for embedding.

All better. TwitPic made changes to whitelist Embedly. http://blog.embed.ly/twitpic

Now wouldn't that be awful. We gain your trust, lure you in and then pull the old bait and switch.

That's is not going to happen. As the post states:

> As we continue to grow we will start having product offerings as well as additional APIs.

I just lost another 15 minutes of my life to NowMov. So addicting.

Demos are now at the bottom of the post. Thanks

We added examples to the Post. Thanks.

Twitter seems to be having search issues with OR statements and filters. They are only returning a limited amount of results. I'll update when it's worked out.

You're welcome. A lot of credit has to go to Chris and the Reddit guys. They were awesome. One phone call, some code, a few emails and it was done.

There is no competition between embedly and embedster. One is a delivery network the other helps you generate revenue from the videos on your site. If anything we complement each other. (founder of embedly)

I would of loved to add comments in there, but there is no way of getting them barring html scrapping.

HN Feature Request: RSS feed for comments of an item.

I agree adding the comments would be great, but without html scraping Hacker News it's not possible. I didn't want to reproduce HN only show that adding more context around a link will change a user's behavior around that link.

I would disagree that the first paragraph is meaningless. The title alone is generally not enough to make an accurate guess on whether a link is useful.