Template talk:YouTube

Broken links being generated?
YouTube appears to be now 404ing /user/CHANNEL_NAME links, which should now just be /CHANNEL_NAME on the YouTube domain. See for example these template invocations that are broken but bare links work fine:

lizthegrey (talk) 17:33, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Those links will work via the template's custom URL feature: :
 * and -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 02:59, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Archive link
It may be beneficial to allow the use of archived links for videos that have been deleted. InfiniteNexus (talk) 06:52, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

How to use url
i want to put url for a music video but that url start with, and this template also not supporting that url.is there any alternatives. --KEmel49 (talk) 19:08, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
 * youtu.be links are blacklisted on Wikipedia due to spam. You'll need to convert them to youtube.com links. (If you don't know how to do that, just replace https://youtu.be/ with https://youtube.com/watch?v=.) InfiniteNexus (talk) 19:08, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @InfiniteNexus,
 * still not working.By the way can you do ii.Here is the link=.
 * Here is the article-Achen Amar Muktar.
 * --KEmel49 (talk) 04:55, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I overlooked what talk page I was on. If you're using this template, you just need the video ID, i.e. the part after the URL . But ✅. InfiniteNexus (talk) 23:52, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Brace/bracket mangling
This template starts with a [ but then has multiple closing ] in different branches. This makes it really hard to follow what's going on, as text editors can't simply jump between matching brackets.

It seems like this would be easier to read - and to manage future additions - if it were split up like:

&lt;noinclude&gt;&lt;/noinclude&gt;

In youtube-selector have:

In youtube-channel have:

[https://www.youtube.com/channel/ channel]

In youtube-watch have:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ]

... and similarly for youtube-handle, youtube-user, youtube-custom, youtube-show, and youtube-playlist.

In youtube-cite have:

Martin Kealey (talk) 03:17, 17 July 2024 (UTC)


 * (yes I know some white-space will need to be removed from my proposed templates) Martin Kealey (talk) 03:25, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
 * The sandbox is available for testing. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:12, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Entirely hide the "on Youtube" citation
Backhouse Lecture mostly comprises a table that has a column for links to resources in different media; currently it does not use this template as the words "on Youtube" would constitute excessive clutter.

I would like to request a way to suppress this wording by way of an additional parameter, perhaps. (This is included in my proposed template set elsewhere in this talk page.) Martin Kealey (talk) 03:29, 17 July 2024 (UTC)


 * This isn't a citation template. Cite AV media should be used for that. Gonnym (talk) 13:56, 17 July 2024 (UTC)