Title: Get URL which shortcode is generating?
Last modified: August 20, 2016
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# Get URL which shortcode is generating?
* [Pete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angio/)
* (@angio)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-url-which-shortcode-is-generating/)
* Hi is it possible to display the URL which the shortcode will generate next to
the list of all videos / short codes. I need to use the complete URL in a template
instead of shortcodes.
* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s3-video/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s3-video/)
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* Plugin Author [Anthony Mills](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anthony_mills/)
* (@anthony_mills)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-url-which-shortcode-is-generating/#post-3372080)
* Hi Pete,
No you can’t at present, if its a feature people would like its easy
enough to add it to a future version. The URL can be worked out if its needed
regardless manually as it follows the format below:
* [http://bucketname.s3.amazonaws.com/video_filename](http://bucketname.s3.amazonaws.com/video_filename)
* Cheers
* Anthony
* Thread Starter [Pete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angio/)
* (@angio)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-url-which-shortcode-is-generating/#post-3372081)
* Hi Anthony,
* I thought i’d need the URL to embed within a video player in a custom template
but turns out the short codes work just fine rendering on the page
* Thanks
Pete
* Thread Starter [Pete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angio/)
* (@angio)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-url-which-shortcode-is-generating/#post-3372085)
* Actually Anthony, the embed code i’m using seems to be defaulting to a flash
player which doesn’t play the videos on my phone.
* On FlowPlayer’s website I see they do use an HTML5 player. Is flash being used
because of the embed code? If so is there a way to switch this, i’m looking at
the code in existing-videos.php
* Thanks
* Thread Starter [Pete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angio/)
* (@angio)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-url-which-shortcode-is-generating/#post-3372086)
* I can probably add my own jQuery function to pop up and display the full URL
to the video, then place it into a post and wrap it around the default FlowPlayer
code to use HTML5 if you can just let me know if there’s a way to do it with
the embed code.
* Thread Starter [Pete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angio/)
* (@angio)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-url-which-shortcode-is-generating/#post-3372087)
* Ok here’s what I used for the full path to video.
* ```
jQuery("a#getURL").click(function() {
var videoFile = jQuery(this).attr("title");
var linkText = '
Full path to video on s3: ';
var shortLink = '
';
jQuery("#videoInfo").html(linkText + shortLink + ' ');
jQuery().colorbox({width:"50%", inline:true, href:"#videoInfo"});
});
```
* ```
Get URL
```
* Plugin Author [Anthony Mills](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anthony_mills/)
* (@anthony_mills)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-url-which-shortcode-is-generating/#post-3372098)
* Hi Pete,
Sorry on the delay in getting back to you, for some reason i never
seem to get emails when a support topis is updated.
* If the HTML5 flow player is not working for you have you tried using the VideoJS
player?
* What sort of video file is it? I know it seems stupid but its worth checking
its not an .flv file or something that needs to be played by flash.
* If you do what to play with the actual embed code I would recommend you take
a look at the file /s3-video/views/video-management/play-flowplayer.php I just
based that off the examples on the flowplayer site so if you can find a better
way to do it I am all ears 🙂
* Cheers
* Anthony
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