This package provides a template tag to parse embed URLs and call the embedly API to generate oembed data, that you can use in your HTML.

Install requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt

Add 'embeds' to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py.

Run syncdb or manage.py migrate, if you use South.

Also, under django's settings.py add an entry for

EMBEDLY_KEY = <embedly key>

which can be obtained by signing up for the service.

Given a template context variable that looks like:

my_text = """
The following line will be replaced with video embed HTML.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCL1RpgYxRM
"""

Include these lines in your template to embed the youtube video with a maximum width of 400px:

{% load embed_filters %}
{{ my_text }}

{% get_oembed_data my_text maxwidth=400 as oembed %}
{% if oembed %}
    <div class="embed-data">
        {{oembed.title}} <br />
        {{oembed.description}} <br />
        {{oembed.html}} <br />
    </div>
{% endif %}