diff --git a/include/oembed.php b/include/oembed.php
index d0a2bc8643..0b8b713667 100755
--- a/include/oembed.php
+++ b/include/oembed.php
@@ -74,17 +74,6 @@ function oembed_fetch_url($embedurl, $no_rich_type = false){
 			}
 		}
 
-		if ($txt==false || $txt=="") {
-			$embedly = Config::get("system", "embedly");
-			if ($embedly != "") {
-				// try embedly service
-				$ourl = "https://api.embed.ly/1/oembed?key=".$embedly."&url=".urlencode($embedurl);
-				$txt = fetch_url($ourl);
-
-				logger("oembed_fetch_url: ".$txt, LOGGER_DEBUG);
-			}
-		}
-
 		$txt = trim($txt);
 
 		if ($txt[0] != "{") {
diff --git a/mod/admin.php b/mod/admin.php
index b1bc8de5f2..77093f0859 100644
--- a/mod/admin.php
+++ b/mod/admin.php
@@ -666,7 +666,6 @@ function admin_page_site_post(App $a) {
 	$proxy_disabled		=	((x($_POST,'proxy_disabled'))		? True						: False);
 	$only_tag_search	=	((x($_POST,'only_tag_search'))		? True						: False);
 	$rino			=	((x($_POST,'rino'))			? intval($_POST['rino'])			: 0);
-	$embedly		=	((x($_POST,'embedly'))			? notags(trim($_POST['embedly']))		: '');
 	$worker_queues		=	((x($_POST,'worker_queues'))		? intval($_POST['worker_queues'])		: 4);
 	$worker_dont_fork	=	((x($_POST,'worker_dont_fork'))		? True						: False);
 	$worker_fastlane	=	((x($_POST,'worker_fastlane'))		? True						: False);
@@ -821,9 +820,6 @@ function admin_page_site_post(App $a) {
 		set_config('system','rino_encrypt', $rino);
 	}
 
-	set_config('system','embedly', $embedly);
-
-
 	info(t('Site settings updated.').EOL);
 	goaway('admin/site');
 	return; // NOTREACHED
@@ -1053,7 +1049,6 @@ function admin_page_site(App $a) {
 		'$relocate_url'		=> array('relocate_url', t("New base url"), App::get_baseurl(), t("Change base url for this server. Sends relocate message to all DFRN contacts of all users.")),
 
 		'$rino' 		=> array('rino', t("RINO Encryption"), intval(get_config('system','rino_encrypt')), t("Encryption layer between nodes."), array("Disabled", "RINO1 (deprecated)", "RINO2")),
-		'$embedly' 		=> array('embedly', t("Embedly API key"), get_config('system','embedly'), t("<a href='http://embed.ly'>Embedly</a> is used to fetch additional data for web pages. This is an optional parameter.")),
 
 		'$worker_queues' 	=> array('worker_queues', t("Maximum number of parallel workers"), get_config('system','worker_queues'), t("On shared hosters set this to 2. On larger systems, values of 10 are great. Default value is 4.")),
 		'$worker_dont_fork'	=> array('worker_dont_fork', t("Don't use 'proc_open' with the worker"), get_config('system','worker_dont_fork'), t("Enable this if your system doesn't allow the use of 'proc_open'. This can happen on shared hosters. If this is enabled you should increase the frequency of poller calls in your crontab.")),
diff --git a/view/templates/admin_site.tpl b/view/templates/admin_site.tpl
index 5dfef2b97f..138d04311b 100644
--- a/view/templates/admin_site.tpl
+++ b/view/templates/admin_site.tpl
@@ -128,7 +128,6 @@
 	{{include file="field_input.tpl" field=$basepath}}
 	{{include file="field_checkbox.tpl" field=$suppress_tags}}
 	{{include file="field_checkbox.tpl" field=$nodeinfo}}
-	{{include file="field_input.tpl" field=$embedly}}
 	<div class="submit"><input type="submit" name="page_site" value="{{$submit|escape:'html'}}" /></div>
 
 	<h3>{{$portable_contacts}}</h3>