Video Embedder plugin for Craft CMS 3.x

Craft plugin to generate an embed URL from a YouTube or Vimeo URL.

Ported over from Viget's Video Embed plugin for Craft 2.x.

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.0.0-beta.23 or later.

Installation

To install Video Embedder, follow these steps:

1. Install with Composer via composer require mikestecker/craft3-videoembedder from your project directory
2. Install plugin in the Craft Control Panel under Settings > Plugins

Video Embedder works on Craft 3.x.

Video Embedder Overview

Video Embedder will take your YouTube or Vimeo URL's and convert the URL into an embed-friendly URL for use inside an iframe tag. Video Embedder also has a variable which will take the same URL and get the thumbnail image URL.

Using Video Embedder

Pass a YouTube or Vimeo URL to the getEmbedUrl variable and an embed URL will be returned.

{{ craft.videoEmbed.getEmbedUrl('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xWpo5Dn254') }}

Example:

<iframe src="{{ craft.videoEmbed.getEmbedUrl('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xWpo5Dn254') }}"></iframe>

Output:

<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6xWpo5Dn254"></iframe>

Video Embedder will also pull the largest thumbnail URL from YouTube or Vimeo using the getVideoThumbnail variable.

{{ craft.videoEmbed.getVideoThumbnail('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xWpo5Dn254') }}

Output:

//img.youtube.com/vi/6xWpo5Dn254/0.jpg

Video Embedder Roadmap

Some things to do, and ideas for potential features:

• Add in the ability to actually generate the iframe HTML
• Add new Video URL field type that only allows for supported video URL's
• Add support for more video providers
• Add more thumbnail size options

Brought to you by Mike Stecker