YouTube & DailyMotion videos not working

  • Resolved amatheson

    (@amatheson)


    8 years, 7 months ago

    My site has both YouTube and Vimeo videos. When i installed your plugin, the Vimeo videos worked straightaway but I couldn’t get the YouTube videos to work.

    I have traced this to two problems:

    – The regex you use for YouTube (& Daily Motion) has a bunch of whitespace after the grouping brackets making your regex invalid. For example, this part of the YouTube regex basically says, look for ‘youtube.com/’ followed by one of (whitespace+’v/’ or ‘watch?v=’ or ’embed/+whitespace’) followed by (whitespace+Anything other than $+[multiple characters, numbers, dashes, or underscores]+whitespace).

    /youtube\.com\/( v\/|watch\?v=|embed\/ )( [^\$][a-zA-Z0-9\-_]* )/

    Should be more like the following:

    /youtube\.com\/(v\/|watch\?v=|embed\/)([^\$][a-zA-Z0-9\-_]*)/

    – The YouTube API is the old v2 API which is now deprecated and all the videos now return “No Longer Available.”

    I understand if this is not a priority, so let me know if this is something that won’t be addressed in the short term so I can find an alternative. Thanks!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-video-sitemap-feed-with-multisite-support/

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  • Plugin Author Art Project Group

    (@artprojectgroup)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Thank you for the advice.

    We’ll update the plugin today with fixed code.

    Kind regards.

    Plugin Author Art Project Group

    (@artprojectgroup)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Everything was fixed, and much more 😉

    Thank you.

    Thread Starter amatheson

    (@amatheson)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for the quick turn around on this! The YouTube videos are now showing up properly. Could you adjust the link in the ‘reproductor’ field to reflect a good URL for the YouTube videos? Right now if you follow that link it results in a 404 error.

    A couple more suggestions (I can open a new ticket if you prefer):

    * Title – Should be the video title, according to the spec, right? It seems to be pulling the post title by default.
    * Description – Similar to title, but I think you are limited by what the APIs return, so perhaps there is nothing you can do about this at the moment.

    Thanks again!

    Plugin Author Art Project Group

    (@artprojectgroup)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    We fixed the player URL but in any process we put the old URL again 🙁 We’ll fixed it again, sorry.

    And for the title, description, tags and category we use the post information because we want promote our posts, not the published videos 😉

    Kind regards.

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