Since a few days (I’d say just after updating to Discourse 2.5 beta 5 - and continues on beta 6 - but it can well be a coincidence) embedding of YouTube videos works itermittently. After a few hours not working, it just restarts embedding OK. Since yesterday, it stopped working completely. I don’…

[image] AntiMetaman: But regular youtube links work. If they banned, wouldn’t all of them not work? Not the case, @AntiMetaman . As @codinghorror suggested above, YouTube appears to rate-limit / ban certain formats of YouTube links work where others continue to work. In my case the ‘/embed’ …

Can you define regular and non-regular YouTube links please.

If that is the case, why can’t Onebox convert into the one format that works before polling the data?

It could, I guess, but it’s not a ‘fix’. All of the formats appear to be rate-limited and eventually fail. Even the ‘/embed’ format failed for me after I tried to re-bake all of the YouTube embeds that had failed during a previous re-bake. Plus, I’ve only seen two experiences shared on here where …

I’m an interested party as we move our popular community to Discourse soon. Just staging at the moment, it works for now, but we want to have a save setup right from the start, thus we will probably setup with Onebox Assistant to our own endpoint which will relay and cache responses from embeds.rock…

Ok, so I was just playing around and I was able to reproduce it here on meta.discourse! I believe it has something to do with markdown. My youtu.be links do in fact work my forum as intended just not in the examples below. Youtube isn’t blocking my host at all. This won’t work even on meta.discour…

Glad you’re not beling blocked by YouTube. I think everything is working as it should - it’s a formatting issue. I believe that Onebox expanding needs the link to be a) at the beginning of a line on its own and b) if it is in the middle of a list it needs an additital return / linefeed before it. I…

Yea I’ll just have to learn to work with markdown and put youtube links on a separate line. My users are still getting used to it and it’s a post made by a user that caught my attention where their youtu.be link didn’t work which is what led to all this.

[image] bletch: If there is a rate-limit issue due to some recent change then I think other users will start to experience this during migration, re-baking of posts or perhaps just down to a really busy forum. The fact that onebox seemingly fails silently means that these issues aren’t visible u…

[image] Canapin: Or use “Onebox Assistant”, crawl for those previews reliably! ? It is certainly a way if you can afford it.

Youtube videos onebox embedding stopped working

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Richie (Richie Rich) April 5, 2021, 8:36pm 52

@Overgrow please see: Youtube embeddings have stopped working for servers in Europe

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Youtube videos onebox embedding stopped working

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