ReStructuredText Youtube / Vimeo video embed directive

rst.video.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
    ReST directive for embedding Youtube and Vimeo videos.

    There are two directives added: ``youtube`` and ``vimeo``. The only
    argument is the video id of the video to include.

    Both directives have three optional arguments: ``height``, ``width``
    and ``align``. Default height is 281 and default width is 500.

    Example::

        .. youtube:: anwy2MPT5RE
            :height: 315
            :width: 560
            :align: left

    :copyright: (c) 2012 by Danilo Bargen.
    :license: BSD 3-clause
"""
from __future__ import absolute_import
from docutils import nodes
from docutils.parsers.rst import Directive, directives


def align(argument):
    """Conversion function for the "align" option."""
    return directives.choice(argument, ('left', 'center', 'right'))


class IframeVideo(Directive):
    has_content = False
    required_arguments = 1
    optional_arguments = 0
    final_argument_whitespace = False
    option_spec = {
        'height': directives.nonnegative_int,
        'width': directives.nonnegative_int,
        'align': align,
    }
    default_width = 500
    default_height = 281

    def run(self):
        self.options['video_id'] = directives.uri(self.arguments[0])
        if not self.options.get('width'):
            self.options['width'] = self.default_width
        if not self.options.get('height'):
            self.options['height'] = self.default_height
        if not self.options.get('align'):
            self.options['align'] = 'left'
        return [nodes.raw('', self.html % self.options, format='html')]


class Youtube(IframeVideo):
    html = '<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/%(video_id)s" \
    width="%(width)u" height="%(height)u" frameborder="0" \
    webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen \
    class="align-%(align)s"></iframe>'


class Vimeo(IframeVideo):
    html = '<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/%(video_id)s" \
    width="%(width)u" height="%(height)u" frameborder="0" \
    webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen \
    class="align-%(align)s"></iframe>'


def setup(builder):
    directives.register_directive('youtube', Youtube)
    directives.register_directive('vimeo', Vimeo)

Hi,
How can I add this to conf.py so that I can use it from my rst file?

@seonman Call setup() function which should (even in conf.py) register new classes that handle a non-standard RST directives such as youtube and vimeo from this file.

Thank you for this directive. It worked for me. What are the allowable inputs for align? I tried center and there was no change.

@jukent hehe, nice that this is still being used 🙂

Alignment options are left, center and right. I don't know if it still works, you may need to adjust the code. I haven't used this in a long time.

Suggest to update the iframe embed url from http to https, otherwise this error may pop up

MQTT.html:332 Mixed Content: The page at 'https://xxxxxxxx' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure frame 'http://www.youtube.com/embed/xxxxxxxxx'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.