Auto-Embed Youtube Links?

[onyxchase]

Is there a way to Auto-Embed Youtube links? I noticed that people usually just paste their YouTube video link and I constantly have to edit their post and tag them in the MEDIA tags, is there a way to get XenForo to do this automatically?

Thanks.

 

[Paul B]

Not without an add-on.

You could try asking here: http://xenforo.com/community/forums/add-on-requests.35/

 

[Russ]

Is there a way to Auto-Embed Youtube links? I noticed that people usually just paste their YouTube video link and I constantly have to edit their post and tag them in the MEDIA tags, is there a way to get XenForo to do this automatically?

Thanks.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/urlrewriter-auto-media-embed-and-affiliate-schemes.8292/

This may be what you're looking for, already released.

 

[Paul B]

Thanks Russ, I forgot about that particular add-on.

 

[erich37]

why do we need a plugin for this ???

 

[Chromaniac]

http://api.embed.ly/tools/script is what I use...

just add this code to your forum code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://scripts.embed.ly/embedly.js" ></script>

 

[Russ]

why do we need a plugin for this ???

It's been suggested here:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/suggestion-auto-embed-video.2183/

 

[onyxchase]

Thank you all. I think it should be a default XF feature but I'll settle for the plugin for now.

 

[Dean]

why do we need a plugin for this ???

Because sometimes the person wants put up a link, at least that is what I like to do occasionally.

 

[onyxchase]

You could link it with the URL tag, and if there is no tag it should auto embed. Just My thoughts.

 

[Ati]

Some of the videos don't even allow embedding (Instead of the video, you will see a message telling you that the uploader does not want the video to be embedded on external sites). Linking to these same videos works fine.

I think that automatically embedding everything by default would cause troubles.

 

[onyxchase]

Some of the videos don't even allow embedding (Instead of the video, you will see a message telling you that the uploader does not want the video to be embedded on external sites). Linking to these same videos works fine.

I think that automatically embedding everything by default would cause troubles.

I think if you don't allow embeding you can still see the picture of the youtube clip, but when you click play it brings you to YouTube instead of playing on the page.