Feature request: Allow {% youtube %} tag to load a playlist

[RichardJECooke]

For feature request

It would be great to allow youtube playlists as well as just embedding single videos. Example use case: I have a whole lot of music video representing a portfolio that I would like people to be able to click 'next' through, rather than scrolling down my page and loading and playing each video individually.

[tcrowe]

Hey @RichardJECooke 👋 It sounds like a good idea for a plugin.

[RichardJECooke]

This is actually already possible if you use AsciiDoc (.adoc) rather than Markdown (.md) for posts and pages. AsciiDoc is a MUCH better markup language all round, and it supports things out of the box the Hexo provides plugins for unnecessarily.

In an .adoc post you can just say:

video::155635261[vimeo, width=700, height=400, theme=dark]

or

video::X-prfGOo_wA[youtube, list=PLAzBJ4GymH-ynRtLdbbOFYl3eKkm-c5AK]

Here's a guide on how to use video in AsciiDoc: https://asciidoctor.org/docs/user-manual/#youtube-and-vimeo-videos

[tcrowe]

Do you think this plugin will help with that? https://github.com/hcoona/hexo-renderer-asciidoc

[RichardJECooke]

Yup, that's the one I linked in my comment. It works great. I'm switching to it from now on for all my articles (it also does stuff like bibliography entries, numbered outline headings, table of contents, and the format also allows you to export to PDF or Word later if you want to).

[SukkaW]

From Google Document I could see it is possible to use <iframe> to load YouTube playlist.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171780?hl=en

I might add support for this.

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Update:

@RichardJECooke

YouTube could embed playlist with url format like this: https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLx0sYbCqOb8TBPRdmBHs5Iftvv9TPboYG

So you can try use videoseries?list=PLx0sYbCqOb8TBPRdmBHs5Iftvv9TPboYG as video id in {%.youtube %} tag.