How to embed youtube video in post?
You can't
You can put a picture and put URL of the video.
What if I tell all of you that there is another way or work around? you won't need to upload image to any proxy
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1. Get the Youtube video link e.g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2en3nHxA4 (Remember this id
Gc2en3nHxA4)
2. There are 4 a default thumbnail images to each video the, URL to these images will be like
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<youtube-video-id>/0.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<youtube-video-id>/1.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<youtube-video-id>/2.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<youtube-video-id>/3.jpg
3. Now to add or embed youtube video, add img tag and replace Youtube Video id
[img]https://img.youtube.com/vi/Gc2en3nHxA4/0.jpg[/img]
4. Now add URL tag and point URL to actual youtube video
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2en3nHxA4][img]https://img.youtube.com/vi/Gc2en3nHxA4/0.jpg[/img][/url]
5. Final result, Youtube video, click to play
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