GET statuses/oembed
get-statuses-oembed

GET statuses/oembed

Returns a single Tweet, specified by either a Tweet web URL or the Tweet ID, in an oEmbed-compatible format. The returned HTML snippet will be automatically recognized as an Embedded Tweet when Twitter's widget JavaScript is included on the page.

The oEmbed endpoint allows customization of the final appearance of an Embedded Tweet by setting the corresponding properties in HTML markup to be interpreted by Twitter's JavaScript bundled with the HTML response by default. The format of the returned markup may change over time as Twitter adds new features or adjusts its Tweet representation.

The Tweet fallback markup is meant to be cached on your servers for up to the suggested cache lifetime specified in the cache_age.

Resource Information

Resource URL https://publish.twitter.com/oembed
Response formats JSON
Requires authentication? No
Rate limited? No

Parameters

Name Default Description
urlrequired
String
The URL of the Tweet to be embedded
maxwidth
Int [220..550]
325 The maximum width of a rendered Tweet in whole pixels. A supplied value under or over the allowed range will be returned as the minimum or maximum supported width respectively; the reset width value will be reflected in the returned width property. Note that Twitter does not support the oEmbed maxheight parameter. Tweets are fundamentally text, and are therefore of unpredictable height that cannot be scaled like an image or video. Relatedly, the oEmbed response will not provide a value for height. Implementations that need consistent heights for Tweets should refer to the hide_thread and hide_media parameters below.
hide_media
Boolean, String or Int
false When set to true, "t", or 1 links in a Tweet are not expanded to photo, video, or link previews.
hide_thread
Boolean, String or Int
false When set to true, "t", or 1 a collapsed version of the previous Tweet in a conversation thread will not be displayed when the requested Tweet is in reply to another Tweet.
omit_script
Boolean, String or Int
false When set to true, "t", or 1 the <script> responsible for loading widgets.js will not be returned. Your webpages should include their own reference to widgets.js for use across all Twitter widgets including Embedded Tweets.
align
Enum {left,right,center,none}
none Specifies whether the embedded Tweet should be floated left, right, or center in the page relative to the parent element.
related
String
A comma-separated list of Twitter usernames related to your content. This value will be forwarded to Tweet action intents if a viewer chooses to reply, like, or retweet the embedded Tweet.
lang
Enum(Language)
en Request returned HTML and a rendered Tweet in the specified Twitter language supported by embedded Tweets.
theme
Enum {light, dark}
light When set to dark, the Tweet is displayed with light text over a dark background.
link_color
String
Adjust the color of Tweet text links with a hexadecimal color value.
widget_type
Enum {video}
Set to video to return a Twitter Video embed for the given Tweet.
dnt
Boolean
false When set to true, the Tweet and its embedded page on your site are not used for purposes that include personalized suggestions and personalized ads.

Example Request

curl 'https://publish.twitter.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FInterior%2Fstatus%2F507185938620219395'

Example Response

{
  "url": "https://twitter.com/Interior/status/507185938620219395",
  "author_name": "US Dept of Interior",
  "author_url": "https://twitter.com/Interior",
  "html": "<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Happy 50th anniversary to the Wilderness Act! Here&#39;s a great wilderness photo from <a href="https://twitter.com/YosemiteNPS">@YosemiteNPS</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Wilderness50?src=hash">#Wilderness50</a> <a href="http://t.co/HMhbyTg18X">pic.twitter.com/HMhbyTg18X</a></p>&mdash; US Dept of Interior (@Interior) <a href="https://twitter.com/Interior/status/507185938620219395">September 3, 2014</a></blockquote>n<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>",
  "width": 550,
  "height": null,
  "type": "rich",
  "cache_age": "3153600000",
  "provider_name": "Twitter",
  "provider_url": "https://twitter.com",
  "version": "1.0"
}