Help:YouTube extension

The easiest way to embed video from several online video hosting services is to use the Video Embed Tool (VET). This tool supports a number of different video types from several popular sources, including YouTube.

This page documents how to use the YouTube video extension, an older video extension. Videos added using the Youtube tag are automatically converted to file pages so to help reduce page load time and improve video data tracking. A few exceptions exist and are listed below.

Using the Youtube extension
To add a YouTube video using the Youtube extension, you need the id code for the video. The string of letters and numbers after "v=" in the URL is the id code. So for the URL:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCz1kmfqL7g  the id code would be CCz1kmfqL7g.

YouTube videos are embedded using two tags, with the id code for the video you want to show between them:

"id code" is the code from the URL. So in our example, you would use:

You can change the width and height of the video box
 * Width is controlled with, where xxx is the number of pixels.  The default is 640 pixels.
 * Height is controlled in the same way with .  The default is 385 pixels.

So example from above could be:

Conversion
Once this youtube tag is added, on save the tag will be converted to a file page, pulling the name from the youtube video name. Only the width is converted, except if the height is designed for use in an audio player. Attribution on the file page is attributed to the user who added the YouTube tag. This happens in all circumstances except the following exceptions.

Audio Files
If the youtube tag is being used for an audio file and has a height equal or less than 30 pixels then the conversion will not take place.

An example is:

which results in 2MsXVJ6Ba24

Templates
If the youtube tag is used in a template, then the conversion will not take place.However, because of the order in which the template and the extension are processed, the extension code itself cannot contain template parameters.

A sample template which overcomes this limitation is available at, with documentation at.

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