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If you are interested in developing on top of Viddler’s platform, we’ve now tried to make it even easier to do so.  We’ve added a new page to The Viddler Lab called Getting Started: Becoming a Viddler developer. This page should make it quick and easy to find anything you need to start building your applications.

Until today, everyone that wanted an API key had to send me an email – and even that was difficult to figure out.  We’ve added a subpage to the Getting Started page that lets you fill out a form to request an API key.

We have a lot more in store for the Lab in the next few weeks including tutorials, updates to a few of our wrappers, a huge update to our Wordpress plugin, a few new Lab project announcements, and much more.  We hope you find it even easier, and more fun, to be a Viddler developer.

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You may have seen our announcement on the Viddler Spotlight announcing that users of Pownce are now able to link to Viddler videos, and they’d be automatically be embedded within their Pownce link.

Pownce has been doing this for YouTube videos for a while, but they’ve recently begun to work with other publisher’s of media to create a standard way to retrieve general information, and the embed code, about the media their user’s are linking to.  It is called oEmbed and Viddler is proud to be on the ground floor in providing this service to its 3rd party developers.

The workflow for consumers of this service is simple: Identify a qualifying URL, request the oEmbed service using the URL, parse the response.  We’re planning on having a how-to article up here on the lab in the future for your reference as a consumer.

If you are a developer, and you’d like to use Viddler’s oEmbed service to quickly retrieve information about a video on Viddler without the need to scrape the HTML of our pages: you can view our oEmbed service documentation on our Developer Wiki.  For general information about the oEmbed specification, you can visit oEmbed.com.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments!

We’re just setting things up here, but in case you’ve happened on our new toy, we want you to know what it is about.

In short: The Viddler Lab Blog will be reporting on developments on the Viddler video platform and with our developer network.  We’ll be actively looking for creative 3rd party developers, platform partners, and beta testers.

If you’re interested in being a beta tester, comment with your Viddler username in the comments!