oEmbed

oEmbed is an open format for embedding videos into a website without having to parse the embedding code directly. More details at view the spec.

Endpoint

https://zimovi.com/oembed.json (or .xml)

URL schemes

https://zimovi.com/channel/*/video/*

https://www.zimovi.com/channel/*/video/*

Parameters

url	The ZiMovi page URL for a video.
autoplay optional	Automatically start playback of the video. Defaults to false.

Example Request

https://zimovi.com/oembed.xml?url=http%3A%2F%2Fzimovi.com%2Fchannel%2Fstaff%2Fvideo%2F8ef80cb7874b34ab

Example Result

{
   "type":"video",
   "version":"1.0",
   "provider_name":"ZiMovi",
   "provider_url":"https:\/\/zimovi.com\/",
   "title":"ZiMovi",
   "html":"<iframe src=\"https:\/\/zimovi.com\/channel\/staff\/player\/video\/8ef80cb7874b34ab\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe>",
   "width":1280,
   "height":720,
   "duration":"133.44",
   "video_id":"8ef80cb7874b34ab",
   "thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/d1teylh2i3wa1w.cloudfront.net\/videos\/c6b4c01a4d3a3e266cca3eb9457e6c09eb8cc6aa_6401.jpg",
   "thumbnail_width":640,
   "thumbnail_height":360,
   "author_name":"ZiMovi Staff",
   "author_url":"https:\/\/zimovi.com\/channel\/staff"
}

WordPress Integration Example

Register ZiMovi’s oEmbed provider for ZiMovi URLs using a regex URL format:

<?php wp_oembed_add_provider( '#https?://(www\.)?zimovi\.com/.+?/video/.*#i', 'https://zimovi.com/oembed.{format}', true ); ?>