Embed
Embed external content from third-party providers to access it on a board.
The embed item enables embedding, displaying, and accessing content from an external source inside a Miro board.
To embed external content, Miro boards leverage the Embedly service. This enables support for hundreds of content providers: videos, screencasts, slide decks, images, audio, code repositories, and so on.
In this way, boards become collaboration and knowledge-sharing hubs, where cross-disciplinary teams can discover, design, and create without any constraints.
Embed item example:
Figure 1. Example of an embed item with a playable YouTube video and an assigned thumbnail preview image.
After embedding a content resource in a board, it's possible to retrieve any metadata about the embedded content, if available.
For example: title and description, content type and provider, position and dimensions of the iFrame with the embedded content.
REST API only: data
object information is retrieved from the content provider through the Embedly service.
Known limitations
Update
- It's possible to only update the URL of the resource that you want to embed, and the position of the embed item on the board.
Updating the URL means pointing to a different resource, while retaining the created embed item ID. - REST API only: to move the item to a different position on the board, send a request to the
/position
endpoint.
Read
- It's possible to retrieve an embed item by specifying its ID.
- REST API only: it's not possible to retrieve it by passing any
data
object properties.
See also
Updated 10 months ago
To discover the REST API and the Web SDK feature sets and to get app ideas, check their tutorial sections.