[wp-hackers] is it possible to oEmbed YouTube playlists?

Davit Barbakadze jayarjo at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 16:26:00 UTC 2011


I just wrote a simple plugin that adds support for additional params
for single video YouTube Player, kinda lacks handy interface, but if
anyone interested I probably could prettify it.

Davit Barbakadze




On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Jan Fabry <jan.fabry at monkeyman.be> wrote:
> On Sunday, June 12, 2011 6:45:32 AM UTC+2, jayarjo wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Jan for the info, do you know if it supports additional player
>> options for playlists, like it is possible for single videos? For example
>> turning on/off player controls?
>
>
> I don't know what options are available now. There is an open feature
> request for this at the Embedly support site
> [ http://support.embed.ly/entries/20117823-enable-youtube-parameters-in-wp-plugin
> ], I think you should follow that to get the news.
>
> Also, unless I misunderstand the oEmbed code in WordPress [
> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.1.3/wp-includes/class-oembed.php#L165
> ], I believe only the url, width and height arguments are sent to the oEmbed
> provider. So a shortcode like [embed
> controls=0]http://example.com/some-item[/embed] would not send the
> "controls" argument.
>
> Jan Fabry
>
>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Jan Fabry <jan.... at monkeyman.be> wrote:
>> > YouTube itself does not return an oEmbed answer for a playlist URL, but
>> > Embedly does
>> > [ http://support.embed.ly/entries/206523-you-tube-playlist-support ].
>>
>>
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