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I tried embedding a Youtube video, but it didn't work.

gameboy2000 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 28, 2019 4:19 pm

I tried embedding a Youtube video, but it didn't work.

What was the URL you were trying to embed? Was there anything after the video ID in the URL? Was it a "shortened" URL?

I sent a PM with the link.

I see its obviously workin for everyone else but not for me. So what am I doin wrong?

BNSF2184 wrote: ↑

Wed May 20, 2020 9:53 pm

I see its obviously workin for everyone else but not for me. So what am I doin wrong?

It has to be the full YouTube URL (not the shortened one YouTube gives you when you hit "share", for some reason) with nothing after the video ID. Here's an example of one that works: Which produces this as the result:


And here's some examples of ones that don't work: As you can see below, all of those either don't work, or just fail to embed entirely:
[YouTube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy__Jp5 ... BCF4AaABAg[/YouTube]
[YouTube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy__Jp5SAtU&t=35s[/YouTube]
[YouTube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy__Jp5 ... e=youtu.be[/YouTube]
[YouTube]https://youtu.be/gy__Jp5SAtU[/YouTube]

I may see about fixing it so that the shorten URLs work as well, but I'll have to experiment around with that some.

EDIT:
Okay, I've now added a new bbcode, called YouTubeShort. Basically works the same way as the standard YouTube embed code, only with shortened URLs.

How it works is you essentially do this: Which then allows the video to be embedded:

Ok cool. Ill try it next time I shoot a crossing.