How can I embed a YouTube video on GitHub wiki pages?

Question

I am fairly new to markup (though it\'s extremely easy to pickup). I am working on a package and am trying to get the wiki pages looking nice as a help manual. I can insert

Answer 1

I created https://yt-embed.herokuapp.com/ to simplify this. The usage is direct, from the examples above:

[![Everything Is AWESOME](https://yt-embed.herokuapp.com/embed?v=StTqXEQ2l-Y)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTqXEQ2l-Y "Everything Is AWESOME")

Will result in:

Just make a call to: https://yt-embed.herokuapp.com/embed?v=[video_id] as the image instead of https://img.youtube.com/vi/.