oEmbed Support

Introduction

oEmbed is an open format which standardizes the process of embedding photos, videos, links, or other media. It allows web sites to quickly and easily embed media when a user posts a link directly to that resource. The link will retrieve the embed code automatically from that resource.

You can read more on oEmbed here.

We are supporting oEmbed to allow users to embed surveys into their page in a standardized way. You need to include the url to the embed resource you want and the format you want the oEmbed response to be in. We provide JSON and XML oEmbed responses.

Surveys

The survey oEmbed call will accept the following arguments.

  • url, the URL to the embed resource ( in this case a survey )
  • format, the format of the oEmbed response ( json/xml )
  • link_text, the text used in the link to the survey pop-up

This is an example of a call for a survey embed…
http://surveydaddy.com/oembed?url=http%3A//surveys.surveydaddy.com/s/ADF2AB9E60258D2A/&format=xml&link_text=Please%20take%20my%20survey!

The XML response for this is…

<oembed>
<type>rich</type>
<version>1.0</version>
<provider_name>Surveydaddy</provider_name>
<provider_url>http://surveydaddy.com</provider_url>
<title>Customer Survey</title>
<html>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">var PDF_surveyID = 'ADF2AB9E60258D2A';var PDF_openText = 'Please take my survey!';</script><script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.surveydaddy.com/s.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://surveys.surveydaddy.com/s/ADF2AB9E60258D2A/">View Survey</a></noscript>
</html>
</oembed>

The JSON response is…

{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Surveyaddy","provider_url":"http://surveydaddy.com","title":"Customer Survey","html":"<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">var PDF_surveyID = 'ADF2AB9E60258D2A';var PDF_openText = 'Please take my survey!';</script><script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.surveydaddy.com/s.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://surveys.surveydaddy.com/s/ADF2AB9E60258D2A/">View Survey</a></noscript>"}