XF 2.1 Youtube BBCode & livestream URL

[RippC]

So, I'm trying to post a thread on my site that has a persistent live stream youtube url in the first post for an event. ...and it seems the BBCode parser won't let it happen. The URL is in the form:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=CHANNELID

XF predictably drops the "channel" parameter and just thinks that "live_stream" is the video ID. Which is obviously incorrect.

I was hoping that putting the site into debug mode would let me edit the setup for that BBCode in the CP, but that didn't work.

Any tips or suggestions would be helpful. TIA. The answer is probably staring me in the face but I can't connect the dots ATM.

 

[JoshyPHP]

FWIW if you just want to link to the page you can post it as https://www.youtube.com/channel/CHANNELID/live

Otherwise you can use an explicit URL BBCode with a custom text, e.g.

[url=https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=CHANNELID]Text goes here[/url]

 

[RippC]

ah I wasn't clear. Linking to it w/ the url is no problem. I'm trying to get the embed to work.

edit: I can use a widget to put it i.e. in a block on the forum_list page, but I'm trying to put it into the first post of a thread. Any way to explicitly include a widget within a post?