YouTube Plugin

A simple plugin for October CMS to embed YouTube videos and meta data into your page.

Specifying the YouTube API Key

You need a YouTube API key. It is possible to embed videos without one, but in order to fetch the description and other meta data, an API key is required. Get one here.

Embedding a Video

Simply add the video component onto your page. In the commponent's settings, specify the YouTube video ID. It can be found at the end of the link to a YouTube video. So for example for this video 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ' the ID is 'dQw4w9WgXcQ'.

The component also has more options:

• Player Controls: Wether control elements for the video are displayed.
• Privacy Enhanced Mode: If you activate the privacy-enhanced mode, YouTube will not save information about the users on your website, unless they watch the video.
• Responsiveness: Wether the video should be fixed size specified by width and height, or responsive.
• Width & Height: The width and height of the video if it is not responsive. Otherwise they have no effect.

Backend Settigns

API key: The API key needs to be a valid YouTube API key.

Should errors be dispalyed?: The default markup includes a descriptive error message if one occurs. This can be disabled here.

Embed Video Without Additional Data

If you want to embed just the video, but without additional data, you can fork the component and remove everything except for the iframes. The plugin however still expects the API key, even though embedding videos is possible without.

If you don't want to specify the API key, you can copy and paste the iframe manually. See this. Notice, that you can also specify privacy enhanced mode and whether you want video controls to be displayed.