Is there such a thing as a library that abstracts away the differences between the JavaScript APIs of common embedded video players (YouTube, Vimeo, etc)?<p>This could be useful if I've embedded a player with embed.ly and then want to control it from elsewhere on the page (say, have a big "play" button somewhere).
Great news, congratulations!<p>Embedly seems like a great service. I haven't started using it yet, but it's definitely on my roadmap of things to do. A service that does a simple but incredibly important thing for you, without you having to worry about it.
i made a mashup using embedly a while ago -- it's cool because if you have a forum, you can use embedly to automatically embed all links etc and produce the cool dynamic experience of an image board / video site without any of the hassle
"If you are an existing api.embed.ly user, you can sign up for an API key here." <a href="http://app.embed.ly/pricing/free" rel="nofollow">http://app.embed.ly/pricing/free</a><p>From the embedly blog