how to include video in jekyll markdown blog

Question

I just started blogging using jekyll. I write my posts in markdown. Now, I want to include a youtube video in my post. How can I do this?

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Answer 1

One of the nicer features of WordPres is that you can just paste a Youtube URL in the content (on a new line) and WordPress transforms this into an embed code.

The following code does the same for Jekyll. Just put this code in your footer (or use a Jekyll include) and all paragraphs with JUST a Youtube URL are automagically converted to responsive Youtube embeds by Vanilla JS.

Although just adding the HTML code to your Markdown is a very good (maybe even better) and valid solution, this solution might be more user-friendly.

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