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Asked: 2026-06-11T12:56:34+00:00

In my project user will upload a video by pasting a URL from another

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In my project user will upload a video by pasting a URL from another site. I tried embedly but doesn’t work properly since it gives embedded code for a particular site, YouTube etc. I want to do exactly like this site http://www.myvidster.com/. I tried using cURL code for this:-

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $video_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true); // Display communication with server
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$json_reply = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

and code with file_get_contents is:

$video_url = $_POST['video_url'];
$html = file_get_contents($video_url,true);

But using curl also I got HTML part of some sites only. I am trying for 1 week but still no result. Is it possible to get an embedded code for video from every site? Or I am doing anything wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    you should be looking into the oembed standard

    this protocol allows you to receive the embed code from multiple video sites that support it, in a standard unified way.
    Click the link to see a list of sites that implement oembed

    http://oembed.com/#section7

    For the other websites that don’t support this standard you can usually fetch the embed code through the open graph protocol (meta og:…) or write html parsing rules for each site to extract the embed

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