Title: embed_oembed_discover
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# apply_filters( ’embed_oembed_discover’, bool $enable )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/embed_oembed_discover/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/embed_oembed_discover/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/embed_oembed_discover/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/embed_oembed_discover/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/embed_oembed_discover/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/embed_oembed_discover/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Filters whether to inspect the given URL for discoverable link tags.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/embed_oembed_discover/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/embed_oembed_discover/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [WP_oEmbed::discover()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_oEmbed/discover/)

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/embed_oembed_discover/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$enable`bool

Whether to enable `<link>` tag discovery. Default true.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/embed_oembed_discover/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    $attr['discover'] = apply_filters( 'embed_oembed_discover', true );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/class-wp-embed.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/class-wp-embed.php#L305)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/class-wp-embed.php#L305-L305)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/embed_oembed_discover/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [WP_Embed::shortcode()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_embed/shortcode/)`wp-includes/class-wp-embed.php` |

The [do_shortcode()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/do_shortcode/) callback function.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/embed_oembed_discover/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [4.4.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.4.0/) | The default value changed to true. | 
| [2.9.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.9.0/) | Introduced. |

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