Mini Mods - Auto Youtube Link-Converter

So basically this is a total easy-to-implement plugin, which converts standard youtube links to video-embeds on the fly without urging users to use the video-button because I think it is unnecessary.


On post display, the plugin checks if the post contains at least 1 youtube link in the form of

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=somecode&some=params">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=somecode&some=params</a>

and converts them using the default vB video bbcode parser.

Code can be modified to fit your needs, altough there shouldn't be much to add.
If you're the special performance-freak, I'm curious if you can enhance data/query-performance. So let me know if you do.

INSTALL:

- Download attached XML File and import it as an addon.

Changes since 1.3:
- Now works properly on iPad

Changes since 1.2:
- Supports mobile devices with fallback-display if browser doesn't support flash/embed codes
- Allows the user to specify the above mentioned replacement code for mobile browsers
- Minor improvements & Fixes

Changes since 1.1:
- Moved regular expression and index position into admincp settings to allow easier changing in the future
- supports new youtube link format: "http://youtu.be/*somevideocode*"

Changes since 1.0: (or: why should I download that mod again?)
- Added Link parsing in post-preview mode and in post reviewbits (the latest posts you see under the new reply form)

Now every post containing youtube-links should display the embedded video instead.
Works with any number of youtube-links and any kind of text surrounding them.

Let me know if you have trouble/questions.

[Princezz]

Perfect! Works 1000% great job , thanks.

[Akyeame Kwame]

Nominated for MOTM. AME's tool couldn't fully convert but this did the job.

[Quickness]

As long as the format is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=#####&feature=####

It will be fine. However, sometimes links look like this:

http://www.youtube.com/feature?v=#####&watch=####

And this is when this mod doesn't convert the link.

[Disasterpiece]

Originally Posted by Quickness

As long as the format is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=#####&feature=####

It will be fine. However, sometimes links look like this:

http://www.youtube.com/feature?v=#####&watch=####

And this is when this mod doesn't convert the link.

Never seen this url. Maybe this might work:

Go to Settings > Auto Youtube Link Converter, change the following values:

As new regex code:

/<a href=\"https?:\/\/((.+\.youtube\.com\/((watch)|(feature))\?v=)|(youtu\.be\/))([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(.*)?\"( target=\"_blank\")?>.*<\/a>/

As new regex position: 7

[Onkeltyson]

Very Nice

[chrisbeau]

Nice, any possibility of making it convert the links on the vbadvanced page ?

[marccap]

Added and install - Thanks

[gremrock]

Thanks

[BAMGADE800]

Excellent! Very nice!

[Jncocontrol]

not to be rude, But isn't this pretty much what AME does?