[nodebb-plugin-youtube] Youtube Embed Plugin

meetdilip

Must have.

Scuzz

Is it possible to change this plugin so that instead of automatically embedding the video it will require some sort of enable characters?
Sort of like BBcode?

So [yt]youtubevidelink[yt]?
or something like the markdown image function ![youtube](youtubelink)?

We heavily rely on the shoutbox plugin and when someone postes a youtube link it embeds the video and it takes up quite a lot of space. It could be something added to the admin cp to automatically embed or require some sort of enable code.

Or is there any way we can limit the size of the embed?

julian

@Scuzz Yeah, personally I'd prefer a markup as well.

yt[something](url)

Possibly definable in the ACP page for this plugin...

psychobunny

or something like the markdown image function ![youtube](youtubelink)?

I like this, makes sense. IMO I'm not going to bother updating this because what we really should do is make a global embed plugin one that handles all the major video hosting sites

a_5mith

@psychobunny Something like embed.ly embed API would be fantastic. Just without all the advertising and re-embed icons etc etc.

Schamper

@a_5mith I actually have a half-finished plugin that uses the Embed.ly api... Barely got enough time for all the other stuff I have to do though.

a_5mith

@Schamper Is their anything you're not building. Good work dude, looking forward to what you come up with.

Beatmax

Nice Plugin!

Is there a way to show a small version or at least a thumbnail of the video in the category overview?
If someone posts only a video without any text, it looks like an empty post in the overview.

TY

a_5mith

@Beatmax I've been meaning to test something with this, I'll have a look into possibilities after the Austrian Grand Prix, my man Hamilton is flying!

Beatmax

@a_5mith

hehe, great :d
good luck and thx!

Beatmax

Hi.
Any news here?

a_5mith

@Beatmax Not yet, I've been working on my own nodebb install. Ran into a few issues. will take a look ASAP.

ozanduman

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Tanner

Great plugin, thanks a lot

a_5mith

@psychobunny Hey buddy, I've started working on a youtube-lite plugin if you're interested in contributing, video heavy threads crash my browser due to the number of iFrames being loaded. So I'm working on integrating lazyYT, which only fires the iFrame when it's required, until then it just displays the default image of the video and a play button. I've got as far as displaying the thumbnails, but there's something wrong with it then loading the video, the iFrame code gets mangled. So fails to load.

If anyone wants to help out with this, it's https://github.com/a5mith/nodebb-plugin-youtube-lite (Don't use in live environment, it doesn't work.)

I've noticed that it requires some code be added into the body, is this something that can be done easily via the plugin? Or would it be easier to get people to add it to the custom JS?

psychobunny

I've noticed that it requires some code be added into the body, is this something that can be done easily via the plugin? Or would it be easier to get people to add it to the custom JS?

Try checking this plugin out for an example on how to embed client-side scripts in your plugins

a_5mith

@psychobunny Thanks dude, once I've worked out why the iFrame code is getting mangled, I'll add that in.

a_5mith

Ok, I'm officially at a loss with this... Not only is it mangling the iFrame, it's changing the video ID into all lower case, so the videos don't actually work.

I don't understand how it goes from

$el.on('click', function (e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        if (!$el.hasClass('lazyYT-video-loaded') && $el.hasClass('lazyYT-image-loaded')) {
            $el.html('<iframe width="' + width + '" height="' + height + '" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/"' + id + '?autoplay=1&' + youtubeParameters + '"></iframe>')
                .removeClass('lazyYT-image-loaded')
                .addClass('lazyYT-video-loaded');
        }
    });

To being output as

<iframe width="640" height="360" yuobzwf0aws?autoplay="1&amp;&quot;" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/"></iframe>

Sense, it doesn't make it.

a_5mith

Got it working. Seems to be something to do with the height and width of the iFrame. Will do some more testing, then probably release on npm.

Master-Antonio

How reduce size of video?