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Check YouTube video before embedding

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  • Remco S. 2 years, 10 months ago

    I’m embedding those video’s with the shortcode and youtube url, but some url’s where not valid (anymore). I’ve build a check before I use your shortcode. It should be nice if this is implemented in your shortcode.

    function yt_exists($videoID) {
      $theURL = "https://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$videoID&format=json";
    
      $curl = curl_init($theURL);
      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    
      $body = curl_exec($curl);
      curl_close($curl);
    
      $result = json_decode($body, true);
    
      if ($result['title']){
        return true;
      } else {
        return false;
      }
    }
    
    if (!get_field('youtube_url')) { continue;}
    
    $url = get_field('youtube_url');
    parse_str( parse_url( $url, PHP_URL_QUERY ), $my_array_of_vars );
    if ($my_array_of_vars['v']){
      $youtubeid = $my_array_of_vars['v'];
    } else {
      $youtubeid = str_replace("https://youtu.be/","",$url);
    }
    
    if ($youtubeid){
      if (!yt_exists($youtubeid)) { 
      echo do_shortcode('[fvplayer src="'.get_field('youtube_url').'" lightbox="true;250;150" caption="'.get_the_title().'"]');}
    }
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  • Martin 3 years ago

    Hello Remco,

    do you mean the player should not show at all if the video is removed from YouTube?

    Please let us know what’s your goal.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Remco S. 3 years ago

    My goal is already achieved to not show the player if the youtube URL is not valid. But i wanted to share this with you so maybe you can implement this in further versions. I thaught it can be handy to do this check automatically.

    Martin 3 years ago

    Hello Remco,

    we do have the FV Player Alternative Sources plugin which lets you serve a backup video in case the YouTube video no longer loads.

    I think it would be good to have a feature which would check all the videos in database periodically and let you know about any issues. Currently you can only get that from Google Analytics, which means somebody has to actually try to play these videos (including report delivered to your email): https://foliovision.com/player/analytics/google-analytics-fv-player#video-errors

    Thanks,
    Martin

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