How to Embed Youtube Shorts on Permies

Here's a trick (just in case anyone ever needs it) for embedding youtube shorts.

Take a normal youtube url, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMIoNst9IBs

Then look at your short youtube url, and cut out the video ID, so from https://youtube.com/shorts/ZlMyZZ-mFfI , we copy the ZlMyZZ-mFfI.

Then paste that information into the normal youtube url. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlMyZZ-mFfI Wa-la! Now you have a normal youtube video link that can be embedded here on permies!



If you're not sure how to embed here on permies, you'll want to use the  [youtube] [/youtube] tags, like this [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlMyZZ-mFfI[/youtube]. More info on how to use formatting tags on permies can be found here

(Additionally, this also works if you hate the different viewing experience of youtube shorts--now you can watch shorts just like the longer youtube videos! The link will work if you paste it into a tab and will give you a traditional viewing experience for the short)

Cool and thanks!

I just started making shorts for my channel and was trying to figure this out the other day.

Here is my Dogs and Chickens can get along short to see if it works:

It works--yay!!!

Doing something similar here. I'm simply erasing manually and modyfing part of the link.

going from:
https://youtube.com/shorts/r6c9CVG8z1o?feature=share
to
https://youtu.be/r6c9CVG8z1o

in red what i deleted and in yellow what i modify
https://youtube.com/shorts/r6c9CVG8z1o?feature=share

Nicole Alderman wrote:Here's a trick (just in case anyone ever needs it) for embedding youtube shorts.

trying it out as it didn't seem to work for me....

Take a normal youtube url, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMIoNst9IBs

Then look at your short youtube url, and cut out the video ID, so from https://youtube.com/shorts/ZlMyZZ-mFfI , we copy the ZlMyZZ-mFfI.

here is my shorts link:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-3ekixUBuk

so:  - 3ekixUBuk - is the link bit.

Then paste that information into the normal youtube url.

gives me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ekixUBuk

Wa-la! Now you have a normal youtube video link that can be embedded here on permies!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ekixUBuk[/youtube]

(Additionally, this also works if you hate the different viewing experience of youtube shorts--now you can watch shorts just like the longer youtube videos! The link will work if you paste it into a tab and will give you a traditional viewing experience for the short)

This isn't working either. I just get 'this video is not available anymore' message :(

Very helpful.

And don't forget to include any punctuation that might be part of the ID too. I missed an underscore at the beginning of the ID... and it took me way too long to figure it out :)

testing



https://youtube.com/shorts/TwyyLPJZFwk?feature=share

Trying again...

Nicole Alderman wrote:Here's a trick (just in case anyone ever needs it) for embedding youtube shorts.

Take a normal youtube url, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMIoNst9IBs

Then look at your short youtube url, and cut out the video ID, so from https://youtube.com/shorts/ZlMyZZ-mFfI , we copy the ZlMyZZ-mFfI.

here is my shorts link:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-3ekixUBuk

ah, maybe I need the "f-" too!
so: f-3ekixUBuk might be the link bit.

Then paste that information into the normal youtube url.

gives me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-3ekixUBuk

Wa-la! Now you have a normal youtube video link that can be embedded here on permies!

So I missed part of the video link - thank Matt that was my problem too!