Embedding YouTube Shorts?

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YouTube now has so-called Shorts. (I don't know how new this really is, but I only noticed it this month.) It seems I can't embed those links here though. For example:

https://youtube.com/shorts/S5iqPF09xk0

This will only show up as a link, and if I try to embed it through the Media option, it says that this sort of link isn't supported. Is there a way to fix that?
 

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It's a bit of a hassle, but if you remove "shorts/" and replace it with "watch?v=", then it will work.

Like this:

---https://youtube.com/watch?v=S5iqPF09xk0---

 

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It's a bit of a hassle, but if you remove "shorts/" and replace it with "watch?v=", then it will work.

Like this:

---https://youtube.com/watch?v=S5iqPF09xk0---

Great, thanks! :) I tried removing 'shorts' but forgot that YouTube video IDs don't follow straight after the home URL.
I never claimed I was up to date on anything. :wenger:
 

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YouTube now has so-called Shorts. (I don't know how new this really is, but I only noticed it this month.) It seems I can't embed those links here though. For example:

https://youtube.com/shorts/S5iqPF09xk0

This will only show up as a link, and if I try to embed it through the Media option, it says that this sort of link isn't supported. Is there a way to fix that?
  • Right click on the video.
  • You should see this menu...

  • Select “Copy video URL”.
  • Paste this URL in the insert media box, as usual.
 

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  • Right click on the video.
  • You should see this menu...

  • Select “Copy video URL”.
  • Paste this URL in the insert media box, as usual.
Can't seem to get that menu on my phone app. Sorry!
 

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Can't seem to get that menu on my phone app. Sorry!
Hmm, okay. Have you tried replacing “shorts” with “watch”, prior to copy + pasting the URL? That should do the trick, I think.





 

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It's a bit of a hassle, but if you remove "shorts/" and replace it with "watch?v=", then it will work.

Like this:

---https://youtube.com/watch?v=S5iqPF09xk0---

Don't need the watch part, just replace shorts with v. It's a much better way of watching them too, so ideally any Shorts embedding would just turn them into regular youtube embeds.