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Jekyll YouTube Embed Plugin

This is a plugin meant for Jekyll.

Example use:

Easily embed a YouTube video. Just drop this file in your _plugins directory.

{% youtube oHg5SJYRHA0 %}

You can also specify a height and width. If you do not, it defaults to 560 x 420.

{% youtube oHg5SJYRHA0 500 400 %}
class YouTube < Liquid::Tag
Syntax = /^\s*([^\s]+)(\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s*)?/
def initialize(tagName, markup, tokens)
super
if markup =~ Syntax then
@id = $1
if $2.nil? then
@width = 560
@height = 420
else
@width = $2.to_i
@height = $3.to_i
end
else
raise "No YouTube ID provided in the \"youtube\" tag"
end
end
def render(context)
# "<iframe width=\"#{@width}\" height=\"#{@height}\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/#{@id}\" frameborder=\"0\"allowfullscreen></iframe>"
"<iframe width=\"#{@width}\" height=\"#{@height}\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/#{@id}?color=white&theme=light\"></iframe>"
end
Liquid::Template.register_tag "youtube", self
end
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dqvist commented Feb 6, 2019

It should be https src for the generated iframe code.
E.g.:
"<iframe width="#{@width}" height="#{@height}" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/#{@id}?color=white&theme=light\"></iframe>"

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jeffreytse commented May 7, 2020

jekyll-spaceship - 🚀 A Jekyll plugin to provide powerful supports for table, mathjax, plantuml, mermail, emoji, youtube, vimeo, dailymotion, etc.

Github: https://github.com/jeffreytse/jekyll-spaceship

jekyll-spaceship-demo

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sh1boot commented May 9, 2024

I couldn't use this directly, because Github-Pages or whatever, but having implemented my own one in the form of {% include youtube.liquid id="xyz" %} I wanted to point out that you can reference the thumbnail of the video directly, and put a button on top to play the video (add ?autoplay=1 so you don't have to click twice) so that your own page doesn't have to run a bunch of spurious javascript just to make a clickable image. Here's what I did:
https://github.com/sh1boot/sh1boot.github.io/blob/master/_includes/clickable-embed.liquid

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