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

How often did you find yourself googling "How to embed a video in markdown?"

While its not possible to embed a video in markdown, the best and easiest way is to extract a frame from the video. To add videos to your markdown files easier, I think the jekyll plugin below would help you, and it will parse the video link inside the image block automatically.

jekyll-spaceship -