Extension:YouTube

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YouTube Release status:Extension status stable
ImplementationTemplate:Extension#type	Tag, Media
DescriptionTemplate:Extension#description	Allows to embed YouTube and Google Video movies, Archive.org audio and video, WeGame and Gametrailers video, Tangler forum, and GoGreenTube video
Author(s)Template:Extension#username	Przemek Piotrowski
Latest versionTemplate:Extension#version	1.9.1 (2015-11-22)
MediaWikiTemplate:Extension#mediawiki	1.30+
Database changesTemplate:Extension#needs-updatephp	No
LicenseTemplate:Extension#license	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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ExampleTemplate:Extension#example	Any ShoutWiki site
Hooks usedTemplate:Extension#hook ParserFirstCallInitManual:Hooks/ParserFirstCallInit
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The YouTube extension allows users to embed YouTube and Google Video movies, Archive.org audio and video, WeGame and Gametrailers video, Tangler forum, and GoGreenTube video.

Originally made by and for Wikia, though Wikia no longer uses this video extension.

Installation

• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called YouTube in your extensions/ folder.

• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:

  wfLoadExtension( 'YouTube' );
  

• Y Done - Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

To users running MediaWiki 1.24 or earlier:

The instructions above describe the new way of installing this extension using wfLoadExtension() If you need to install this extension on these earlier versions (MediaWiki 1.24 and earlier), instead of wfLoadExtension( 'YouTube' );, you need to use:

require_once "$IP/extensions/YouTube/YouTube.php";

Usage

To embed a YouTube video:

<youtube>foo</youtube>

where foo is the video ID from the URL. i.e. if the video's URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyBSS48E4xI, then the embed code would be <youtube>VyBSS48E4xI</youtube>.

Other supported video services

See ShoutWiki's help page on using the YouTube extension for more information, such as using alternate, non-YouTube providers to embed content.

The YouTube extension allows also to embed videos from these services:

• Google Video — use the <gvideo> tag
• Archive.org audio — use the <aoaudio> tag
• Archive.org video — use the <aovideo> tag
• WeGame — use the <wegame> tag
• Tangler forum — use the <tangler> tag
• Gametrailers — use the <gtrailer> tag
• Nicovideo — use the <nicovideo> tag
• GoGreenTube — use the <ggtube> tag

Setting width and height

Example:

<youtube width="200" height="120">CCz1kmfqL7g</youtube>

You can change the width and height of the video box

• Width is controlled with width="xxx", where xxx is the number of pixels. The default is 640 pixels.
• Height is controlled in the same way with height="xxx". The default is 385 pixels.

See Wikia's old help page about this extension. It explains further details, such as how to set width and height.