Feature Request: Add support for Youtube Shorts embeds
Author: jerrysarcasticCreated Nov 10, 2021Updated Sep 15, 2026
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What
Add embed support for YouTube Shorts
Why
This is a new format that YouTube seems to be offering. As noted here it's still in beta and I do not see an oembed or iframe option available at this time: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10059070
Opening this now as a placeholder so we can explore how support can be added (I note they already support Tumblr out of the gate for example)
How
No response
Workaround
Make the Shorts video url into a regular video url, by replacing shorts/ with watch?v=, for example:
- Shorts url: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n4S7HH5zj-o
- Regulary video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4S7HH5zj-o
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