# oEmbed responses no longer return author and thumbnail fields

- **Provider:** Meta Graph API
- **Endpoint:** `GET /**/instagram_oembed`
- **Effective:** 2025-11-03
- **Severity:** high
- **Change:** field-rename
- **Status:** verified

## What changed

Since 2025-11-03, on all API versions, Instagram post oEmbed responses (GET /{version}/instagram_oembed) no longer include author_name, author_url, thumbnail_url, thumbnail_width or thumbnail_height. The same fields were removed from Facebook post and video oEmbed (oembed_post, oembed_video), and the Facebook page oEmbed endpoint was deprecated.

## What to do

Stop reading author and thumbnail fields from oEmbed and render the returned html instead. If you need a thumbnail or author, read them from the Instagram Graph API media object for media your app can access, and treat the oEmbed fields as absent.

## Sources

- Provider notice (2025-04-08): https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-platform/changelog
- https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-platform/oembed

## Machine-readable

- Advisory: https://github.com/SriVarshini09/shapi-advisories/blob/main/advisories/meta-graph-instagram-oembed-fields-removed.json
- OSV: https://shapi.dev/osv/meta-graph-instagram-oembed-fields-removed.json