Embedding a YouTube link?

[CactusJack]

After trying for longer than I’d care to admit, I still can’t embed a YouTube link! No matter what I do I either get just the link in my post or a black YouTube screen that says an error has occurred. Can somebody please let me know how to do this before I smash my phone into a thousand tiny pieces? Thanks!

[photon]

I think you had it right, you were just missing all of the characters of the video. I assume this is what you were trying to embed in the testing area:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4REDNiEPso

There's an underscore at the beginning of the video identifier which needs to be included.

So you should post:



Which will end up doing:

[CactusJack]

Wow, it’s finally working today! Thanks for taking the time to help. For some reason it wouldn’t work yesterday but now it’s fine… at least my phone is still in one piece!

[Strange Brew]

I always have this same issue.

Copy you tube url

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3moREAbLl-I

Highlight and click "embed you tube tags around selected text"

And it inevitably leads to black you tube screen that yields error message when clicked

[photon]

You don't want the whole URL, you just want the string that the "v=" is set to.

So you should end up with BBCode that looks like:

[chubeyr1]

Thank you photon!

That was really simple despite reading other posts for the past hour.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

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[Cecil Terwilliger]

Nm

[photon]

Can embed YouTube Shorts now: