Add TED oEmbed support

[johnbillion]

TED provides an oEmbed endpoint for its video talks.

While ted.com is unquestionably an established and popular site, its oEmbed API does not appear to be documented. This does mean that its oEmbed API may not be particularly well maintained.

The API endpoint is at http://www.ted.com/talks/oembed.{format} and appears to support any video at http://www.ted.com/talks/*.

Anyone got any contacts at TED who we might be able to get in touch with to confirm that their oEmbed API isn't going away any time soon?

[pdclark]

Add oEmbed support for TED talks. Same syntax used by TED's WordPress sites, like blog.ted.com

[pdclark]

Hi John,

I'm just wrapping up production on 3 WordPress properties for TED.com, such as ​http://blog.ted.com

I can confirm that the oEmbed endpoints are extensively used within TED sites, so there shouldn't be going anywhere soon.

I've attached a patch that adds the oEmbed provider, using the same URL pattern we use on the *.ted.com sites.

I'll point a contact at TED to this thread for verification.

Paul

[johnbillion]

I'll add this in unless there are any objections.

[helen]

Fire away.

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 28651:

Add oEmbed support for TED talks.

props pdclark.
fixes #28285.

[DrewAPicture]

FYI, this has been added to the ​Codex list.

[iseulde]

So according to #28507, TED does not support SSL for its embeds. We should probably remove this until TED supports SSL.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Per ​IRC discussion, let's deal with SSL issues in #28507.

[nacin]

The TED endpoint has major issues when dealing with dimensions. #29428