Title: Include optional URL parameter Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Include optional URL parameter * [edmyersjr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edmyersjr/) * (@edmyersjr) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-optional-url-parameter/) * Before I get into this, I’d just like to say thank you for all of your great work on this plugin. It is a must have for anyone serious about including video in their wordpress blog and I make sure to install it (or rather my revised version of it, which I’ll explain below) on every one of my client sites. It does a much better job of presenting youtube and other video clips for my responsive sites. * One feature I feel is missing however is the ability to optionally pass a url parameter instead of a video id into the shortcode. The [youtube id=”xxxx”] format is much cleaner, of course, but services like IFTTT that can automatically create posts based on postings to video platforms like youtube do not have direct access to the id, but DO get the URL. In this way, you can include the video URL in the post content. In IFTTT I can easily create an automated post that includes a shortcode [youtube url=”{{the_url}}”] and the description. But the id parameter is not available through IFTTT. You can just include the embed through IFTTT – but I think your plugin does a much better job of handling this. * I forked your project on github and added an optional url= parameter to the youtube shortcode that then extracts the id from the URL. This way, I was able to create a rule in IFTTT that creates a new post on my sites any time a video is posted to a youtube channel. The post includes the video via your shortcode and the youtube description and publishes it (either as a draft or published). Automates a lot of work and saves editors time, and it works great! I know you already have a method for extracting the id from the URL that you use with your tinymce button. If instead of requiring an id property for the shortcode, you could just require an id OR a url, then use the logic you already have for extracting the id, but just do it on the server side when you render the embed if the url parameter is included. id parameter could take precedence if both are provided. * It would be awesome if this feature were implemented in your core plugin. I hope you think it would be as useful for your other users as I have found it to be for me and will consider adding it in a future release! * Thanks again for your great work! * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-responsive-video-embedder/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-responsive-video-embedder/) Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * Plugin Author [Nico](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nico23/) * (@nico23) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-optional-url-parameter/#post-6478978) * So you coded something so * [youtube url=”[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456″%5D](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456″%5D) * instead of * [youtube id=”123456″] * will work as well? If you forked and modified my plugin why not send me a pull request and I see what you coded and maybe include it. * I have no idea of IFTTT I but do you realise that you not need shortcodes and just can have a the URLs on their own lines? * I not really inderstand why you are forced to post specific shortcodes with IFTTT, meybe **they** should chance their code to make it more flexible? * Thread Starter [edmyersjr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edmyersjr/) * (@edmyersjr) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-optional-url-parameter/#post-6479077) * Sorry for the delay getting back to you, didn’t see your reply until today. * Exactly right. With a small change you can use: * [youtube url=”[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456″%5D](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456″%5D) * OR * [youtube id=”123456″] * either one would work. How I implemented was a little sloppy – you would probably do a better job of it – but I’ll do a pull request this weekend when I have a minute so you can take a look * When I put the urls on their own lines (without shortcode), the standard embed was taking over. * IFTTT watches the youtube rss feed for new videos, when one is created, it creates a post. You have access to the video title, description, url, and embed code to use in creating the post. * Plugin Author [Nico](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nico23/) * (@nico23) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-optional-url-parameter/#post-6479079) * Sure the standard embed was taking over? Maybe IFTTT messes with it because ARVE actually disables WordPress’ default embeds for the providers its supports. 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