Are there any Meta APIs?
10th December 2011
My answer to Are there any Meta APIs? on Quora
Embed.ly is a good example of this kind of API—it gives you one endpoint which wraps oembed APIs on dozens of other services (plus a bunch of custom scraping code). We use it as part of our video/slide embedding feature on http://lanyrd.com/More recent articles
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