embedly_oembed.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import urllib
import urllib2
try:
    import json
except ImportError:
    try:
        import simplejson as json
    except ImportError:
        raise ImportError("Need a json decoder")

ACCEPTED_ARGS = ['maxwidth', 'maxheight', 'format']

def get_oembed(url, **kwargs):
    """
    Example Embedly oEmbed Function
    """
    api_url = 'http://api.embed.ly/v1/api/oembed?'

    params = {'url':url }

    for key, value in kwargs.items():
        if key not in ACCEPTED_ARGS:
            raise ValueError("Invalid Argument %s" % key)
        params[key] = value

    oembed_call = "%s%s" % (api_url, urllib.urlencode(params))

    return json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(oembed_call).read())

if __name__ == "__main__":
    urls = ["http://vimeo.com/9503416",
            "http://twitpic.com/13whni"]

    for url in urls:
        print "\n\nurl: %s\n" % url
        print get_oembed(url)
        print "\n\n"