# Discourse Lazy Videos

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-lazy-videos/18101
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** official, lazy-yt, included-in-core
**Created:** [7월 26, 2014, 3:10오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-lazy-videos/18101 "2014-07-26T15:10:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
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### Author: ![Discourse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/discourse/32/148734_2.png) [@Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Discourse)
#### Post date: [7월 26, 2014, 3:10오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-lazy-videos/18101/1 "2014-07-26T15:10:41Z")

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| :discourse2: | **Summary** | **Discourse Lazy Videos** allows lazy loading of videos (Youtube, Vimeo, Tiktok) |
| 📖 | **Install Guide** | **[This plugin](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/main/plugins/discourse-lazy-videos) is bundled with Discourse core**. There is no need to install the plugin separately. |

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> :discourse2: As this is an #official plugin maintained by the Discourse team, #Support, #Contribute > Bug, #Contribute > UX, and #Contribute > Feature requests can be made in the respective categories here on Meta, and tagged with the appropriate plugin tag. Click on a link below to get one started. 👍
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> [❓&nbsp; **Support**](https://meta.discourse.org/new-topic?category_id=6&body=%3E%20Before%20asking,%20did%20you%20search%20first%3F%20Press%20%F0%9F%94%8D%20at%20the%20upper%20right%20to%20search.&tags=lazy-yt "Ask for support on configuring and using Discourse lazyYT") [🐛&nbsp; **Bug**](https://meta.discourse.org/new-topic?category_id=1&tags=lazy-yt "A bug report means something is broken, preventing normal/typical use of the plugin") [👀&nbsp; **UX**](https://meta.discourse.org/new-topic?category_id=9&tags=lazy-yt "Discussion about the user interface of Discourse lazyYT, and how features are presented (including language and UI elements)") [💡&nbsp; **Feature**](https://meta.discourse.org/new-topic?category_id=2&tags=lazy-yt "Discussion about how existing Discourse lazyYT features can be improved or enhanced, and how proposed new features could work")

### Demo

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/9/790d66c1d27294884b400f588d70ed87e7fb3ceb.jpeg "Rudy speech from ND motivation") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdRiPWOP8so)

**Development History**

Highly inspired by the [lazyYT](https://github.com/tylerpearson/lazyYT) jQuery plugin.

Author: @techAPJ

### Privacy Note:

With this plugin enabled, your Youtube videos in posts will be lazily rendered in a `<div>`, as opposed to a Youtube `<iframe>`.

This plugin ensures that no data will be sent to Youtube prior to the user clicking on the Youtube preview box. We could technically implement a `<iframe loading="lazy">`, but this method would still automatically send data to Youtube even when the topic loads.

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