[wp-hackers] is it possible to oEmbed YouTube playlists?

Otto otto at ottodestruct.com
Mon Jun 13 14:28:57 UTC 2011


Just tested, and if you install the Embedly plugin, this does work in a post:

[embed]http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=473A6D9F60CA6580[/embed]

-Otto


On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Jan Fabry <jan.fabry at monkeyman.be> wrote:
> On Saturday, June 11, 2011 7:50:44 PM UTC+2, Otto wrote:
>>
>> No, YouTube lacks oembed support for playlists.
>
>
> YouTube itself does not return an oEmbed answer for a playlist URL, but
> Embedly does
> [ http://support.embed.ly/entries/206523-you-tube-playlist-support ].
>
> Embedly is a sort of "oEmbed wrapper" for sites that don't support oEmbed
> themselves, or for extra features (like the YouTube playlist). You can use
> it as a WordPress plugin [ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/embedly/ ].
> They recently reshuffled their signup page, almost hiding the "free" signup
> page, but you can find it here: [ https://app.embed.ly/pricing/free ].
>
> Jan Fabry
>
>>
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