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YouTube plugin

Search and insert YouTube videos
YouTube screenshot
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The YouTube plugin helps you embedding a video to your pages. All you need is just find the video you need using the keyword search or by its URL and press the "OK" button.

The plugin fully supports the new YouTube API 3. It has a video preview feature and the settings for the inserted video (e. g. video size, including custom sizes).

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TinyMCE logo TinyMCE
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TinyMCE 5 logo TinyMCE 5
TinyMCE 4 logo TinyMCE 4

Install YouTube plugin in Editor42

Download YouTube
ZIP archive of YouTube for Editor42
Self-hosted Editor42
Editor42 from CDN

Install the plugin to Editor42 hosted on your server

  1. Copy YouTube directory to editor42/plugins/.
  2. Edit Editor42 config and add YouTube to plugins parameter.

All the buttons this plugin will add to your toolbar automatically.

Example

Here you can see sample Editor42 initialization code with config inside it:

editor42.init({
    selector: "#editor",
    plugins: "YouTube",

    // apiKey: "...",
    // Get your own key in the Dashboard: https://n1ed.com/dashboard
});

Install the plugin to Editor42 loaded from CDN

  1. Copy YouTube directory somewhere on your server where it can be accessible by a link.
  2. Specify the location of just copied YouTube plugin adding key-value pair in external_plugins Editor42 config parameter.
  3. Edit Editor42 config and add YouTube to plugins parameter.

All the buttons this plugin will add to your toolbar automatically.

Example

Here you can see sample initialization code of Editor42 loaded from CDN with config inside it:

editor42.init({
    selector: "#editor",
    plugins: "YouTube",
    external_plugins: {
        "YouTube": "http://example.com/public/YouTube/plugin.min.js",
    },

    // apiKey: "...",
    // Get your own key in the Dashboard: https://n1ed.com/dashboard
});

YouTube comes as a part of N1ED. Read the official installation manual on developer website to know more.

Install YouTube plugin in TinyMCE

Download YouTube
ZIP archive of YouTube for TinyMCE
Self-hosted TinyMCE
Cloud TinyMCE

Install the plugin to TinyMCE hosted on your server

  1. Copy YouTube directory to tinymce/plugins/.
  2. Edit TinyMCE config and add YouTube to plugins parameter.

All the buttons this plugin will add to your toolbar automatically.

Example

Here you can see sample TinyMCE initialization code with config inside it:

tinymce.init({
    selector: "#editor",
    plugins: "YouTube",

    // apiKey: "...",
    // Get your own key in the Dashboard: https://n1ed.com/dashboard
});

Install the plugin to cloud edition of TinyMCE

  1. Copy YouTube directory somewhere on your server where it can be accessible by a link.
  2. Specify the location of just copied YouTube plugin adding key-value pair in external_plugins TinyMCE config parameter.
  3. Edit TinyMCE config and add YouTube to plugins parameter.

All the buttons this plugin will add to your toolbar automatically.

Example

Here you can see sample cloud TinyMCE initialization code with config inside it:

tinymce.init({
    selector: "#editor",
    plugins: "YouTube",
    external_plugins: {
        "YouTube": "http://example.com/public/YouTube/plugin.min.js",
    },

    // apiKey: "...",
    // Get your own key in the Dashboard: https://n1ed.com/dashboard
});

YouTube comes as a part of N1ED. Read the official installation manual on developer website to know more.

Install YouTube plugin in CKEditor 4

Download YouTube
ZIP archive of YouTube for CKEditor 4

Then do these simple steps:

  1. From the archive, copy plugins/YouTube/ to ckeditor/plugins/YouTube/, and its skin skins/n1theme/ to ckeditor/skins/n1theme/.
  2. Edit CKEditor config: add YouTube to extraPlugins parameter and switch the skin to n1theme.

All the buttons this plugin will add to your toolbar automatically.

Using config file
Using initialization script

If you prefer to edit config.js of CKEditor, or your CKEditor is initialized in some non-editable part of your CMS, make these changes there:

CKEDITOR.editorConfig = function(config) {
    config.extraPlugins = "YouTube";
    config.skin = "n1theme";                   // N1ED's own theme for CKEditor
    config.allowedContent = true;              // keep the classes and attributes N1ED writes
    config.removePlugins = "iframe,magicline"; // N1ED has better support of this
    config.versionCheck = false;               // skip its upgrade notice of CKEditor itself

    // config.apiKey = "...";
    // Get your own key in the Dashboard: https://n1ed.com/dashboard
};

Some CMSs do not use config.js and let you edit only the CKEditor initialization script. Make these changes there:

CKEDITOR.replace("editorId", {
    extraPlugins: "YouTube",
    skin: "n1theme",                   // N1ED's own theme for CKEditor
    allowedContent: true,              // keep the classes and attributes N1ED writes
    removePlugins: "iframe,magicline", // N1ED has better support of this
    versionCheck: false,               // skip its upgrade notice of CKEditor itself

    // apiKey: "...",
    // Get your own key in the Dashboard: https://n1ed.com/dashboard
});

YouTube comes as a part of N1ED. Read the official installation manual on developer website to know more.

Install YouTube plugin in TinyMCE 5

Download YouTube
ZIP archive of YouTube for TinyMCE 5
Self-hosted TinyMCE 5
Cloud TinyMCE 5

Install the plugin to TinyMCE 5 hosted on your server

  1. Copy YouTube directory to tinymce/plugins/.
  2. Edit TinyMCE config and add YouTube to plugins parameter.

All the buttons this plugin will add to your toolbar automatically.

Example

Here you can see sample TinyMCE initialization code with config inside it:

tinymce.init({
    selector: "#editor",
    plugins: "YouTube",

    // apiKey: "...",
    // Get your own key in the Dashboard: https://n1ed.com/dashboard
});

Install the plugin to cloud edition of TinyMCE 5

  1. Copy YouTube directory somewhere on your server where it can be accessible by a link.
  2. Specify the location of just copied YouTube plugin adding key-value pair in external_plugins TinyMCE config parameter.
  3. Edit TinyMCE config and add YouTube to plugins parameter.

All the buttons this plugin will add to your toolbar automatically.

Example

Here you can see sample cloud TinyMCE initialization code with config inside it:

tinymce.init({
    selector: "#editor",
    plugins: "YouTube",
    external_plugins: {
        "YouTube": "http://example.com/public/YouTube/plugin.min.js",
    },

    // apiKey: "...",
    // Get your own key in the Dashboard: https://n1ed.com/dashboard
});

YouTube comes as a part of N1ED. Read the official installation manual on developer website to know more.

Install YouTube plugin in TinyMCE 4

Download YouTube
ZIP archive of YouTube for TinyMCE 4

Then do these simple steps:

  1. Copy YouTube directory to tinymce/plugins/.
  2. Edit TinyMCE config and add YouTube to plugins parameter.

All the buttons this plugin will add to your toolbar automatically.

Example

Here you can see sample TinyMCE initialization code with config inside it:

tinymce.init({
    selector: "#editor",
    plugins: "YouTube",

    // apiKey: "...",
    // Get your own key in the Dashboard: https://n1ed.com/dashboard
});

YouTube comes as a part of N1ED. Read the official installation manual on developer website to know more.

Reviews

It is definitely the best plugin I have for my Tiny! A lot of settings, aspect ratio options for embedding video. Search feature by the phrase, or by URL.

Thanks a lot!

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Agnes B.
Individual

A good instrument for embedding the video from YouTube. Use it very often for my articles.

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Pascal F.
Individual