# YouTube Autoembeds for Live Streams

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**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** onebox\
**Created:** [February 6, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/youtube-autoembeds-for-live-streams/350920 "2025-02-06T17:48:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/youtube-autoembeds-for-live-streams/350920/1 "2025-02-06T17:48:40Z")

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I run a few live events using Streamyard that go directly to YouTube. The stream becomes the recording, so the link is always good.

I notice that Discourse does not seem to embed the different URL format YouTube uses for this videos giving a generic OneBox e.g.,

`https://www.youtube.com/live/eJemwqO0SDw` e.g.

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/a/a/5aa05ab77565b8287936a629ff6743b5fcc78cc2.jpeg "OE Week Live! AI and Language Translation for OER, Open Conversations #1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJemwqO0SDw)

whereas by manually using the same ID in a standard YouTube URL _does_ work in Discourse

`https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJemwqO0SDw` renders as expected

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/a/a/5aa05ab77565b8287936a629ff6743b5fcc78cc2.jpeg "OE Week Live! AI and Language Translation for OER, Open Conversations #1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJemwqO0SDw)

YouTube does not readily provide this form of a live stream video as a share link, so I end up manually re-writing the URLs. Seems like some pattern matching magic could manage this?

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