How to embed a video into Instructables by ewilhelm
It's super easy for Google video, Yahoo! video, Metacafe, Brightcove, Revver, Blip.tv, and YouTube!

Put the URL of the video into our Video function inside some square brackets like this:
[[Video(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woxc2eIedlM) ]]
The video will appear in the text section of your Instructable's step. You can adjust the size of the video by doing this:
[[Video(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woxc2eIedlM, {width:500, height:400} ) ]]

You can also use the tool bar above most text boxes. Click the video button and drop in the URL of the video. Use the URL that takes you to the actual page on the video site with your video, not any special "embed this" URL. We'll take care of all the processing!

**Check out step 2 to see how you can get the correct embed for Blip.tv - the process is a little less intuitive than with YouTube, but it's still pretty simple.**
 
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Step 1: The video

Here, I embedded the video from the 1D Accelerometer by intoon

Example:
[[Video(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woxc2eIedlM, {width:500, height:400})]]
Display:


And, here I embedded the video from the 3D chocolate printer by saul

UPDATE 5/14/07: Yahoo Video has changed, and is slightly less easy to embed.

To include a yahoo video, you'll need to compose a URL. This is done by taking the first part of the yahoo video URL
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=
and appending the vid, which is not the same vid found in the original URL. That will not function externally. To find the real vid, you need to copy out the embed code, found below the video. In this case, it looks like this
<embed src='http://us.i1.yimg.com/cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/player/media/swf/FLVVideoSolo.swf'flashvars='id=598437&emailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com%2Futil%2Fmail%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26vid%3D54937&imUrl=http%253A%252F%252Fvideo.yahoo.com%252Fvideo%252Fplay%253Fei%253DUTF-8%2526vid%253D54937&imTitle=Lego%2Bchocolate%2Bprinter&searchUrl=http://video.yahoo.com/video/search?p=&profileUrl=http://video.yahoo.com/video/profile?yid=&creatorValue=ZXJpY2p3aWxoZWxt&vid=54937' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='425' height='350'></embed>
The real vid is found after the text "flashvars='id=", or in this case 598437. Add that to the back of the URL to get:
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=598437
and then use the video embed like normal. In this case we have
[[Video(http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=598437)]]



Here I embed some video from Google video

[[Video(http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1300191479870868157&q=how+to+cut+wood, {width:400, height:300})]]



Here I embed aMetacafe video,

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/445498/robotic_beer_launching_refrigerator/

[[Video(http://www.metacafe.com/watch/445498/robotic_beer_launching_refrigerator, {width:400, height:300})]]



Embedding a video from Brightcove is really easy to do as well. You just take the link that Brightcove gives you when you click on "link directly to this video" and paste it into the input video bar on instructables.

Here is the link for the "Twilight Zone" Lighter Trick on InstructablesTV.

http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=494918786

If I put that same text into the video bar I get the following video:



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babybayrs says: May 13, 2013. 3:18 PM
I tried to embed video in a step-by-step Instructables, by copying the Youtube video URL to the brackets, but it didn't seem to work. Can anybody see how I should do it over here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Tricolor-tortellini-filled-with-mushroom/
Lightning Thunder says: Nov 23, 2010. 3:35 PM
thanks
james.mcglashan says: Oct 9, 2009. 7:25 PM
can there please be how to embed the jw player as this should work


<script type='text/javascript' src='swfobject.js'></script>

<div id='mediaspace'>This text will be replaced</div>

<script type='text/javascript'>
var so = new SWFObject('http://jamesm.com.au/player/player.swf','mpl','555','300','9');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.addParam('wmode','opaque');
so.addVariable('file','http://jamesm.com.au/player/play.xml');
so.write('mediaspace');
</script>
yourcelf says: Sep 26, 2009. 4:24 AM
You can embed Vimeo videos in Instructables as well (I searched for a long time to find this).
1. Get the full URL for the Vimeo player -- click the "embed" link and find the URL that looks like:
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=......fullscreen=1

2. Add "&.swf" to the end to convince Instructables that it's a video.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=......fullscreen=1&.swf

3. Use the video tag as described above. The default size for Vimeo is {width:400, height:300}.
Derin says: Nov 30, 2008. 1:43 AM
I think the video system works with all flash.I put CP as a test now.

Plasmana says: Sep 22, 2008. 1:57 AM
I am having some problems, I cannot change the size of the you tube video, what did I do wrong?
knex maddo says: Aug 26, 2008. 10:09 AM
how do you add your own one from windows movie maker? please reply A.S.A.P thanks
xACIDITYx says: Aug 17, 2008. 9:33 AM
LOL! I loved that show. Thanks for the info, Eric.
bluesman says: Jun 22, 2008. 6:30 AM
Hey, the metacafe videos don't appear embedded anymore!

What happened? Any ideas?

unklstuart says: Jun 1, 2008. 9:48 PM
Any advice for embedding a video from Flickr?
demer98 says: Apr 26, 2008. 2:27 AM
Great site... hm, i'm kinda new....i need help please can anybody tell me how to add text on youtube video? thank's
trebuchet03 says: Jul 14, 2006. 3:09 PM
another test....

<font color="blue">This might be blue</font>
trebuchet03 says: Jul 14, 2006. 3:12 PM
@llama13

yes, you can do custom color ;)

<table border="0" bgcolor="black"><tr><td><img src="http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/Trebuchet03/P1020697Small.jpg" hspace="10px" vspace="10px"></td></tr><tr><td><font color="white">Yet another Mystery Machine</td></tr></table>
Derin says: Apr 22, 2008. 9:16 AM
<font color="red">well well well written with blood</font>
Derin says: Apr 22, 2008. 9:17 AM
<font color="red"> well well well written with blood </font>
trebuchet03 says: Jul 14, 2006. 3:15 PM
before I go any further.... let me know if you intended to use this feature this way... I like being optimistic... but as a webmaster, I would not want this because of stupid skiddies and other 'evil' purposes.
DaNerd11 says: Mar 27, 2008. 6:36 PM
How do you remove a video?
hay_jumper says: Mar 10, 2008. 8:39 PM
Awesome. Thanks Eric! I spent about an hour perusing the forums before (duh!) using the search feature to find how to do this, and you had my problem solved lickety-split! Yay new instructables tool!
RelyNupon says: Mar 5, 2008. 12:08 PM
I wonder if anyonecan help me I have a video that i need someone to give me the address i cannot access youtube because it is blocked someone please help: here is the info i got

<object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iYqwdr3QtVY"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iYqwdr3QtVY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object>

could someone make sense of it and send me the address to this video. not the link cuz it will be blocked. thank you....(continues 3 paragraphs)
Lithium Rain says: Mar 3, 2008. 3:22 PM
Is there any way I can just upload my video for the paper airplane contest to this site, the way I do with pictures? I have no account on any video website...
ewilhelm (author) says: Mar 3, 2008. 6:06 PM
Not yet.
Lithium Rain says: Mar 4, 2008. 8:43 PM
:(*cries* I had the perfect paper airplane, too...
GorillazMiko says: Mar 3, 2008. 8:24 PM
I can't seem to find how to embed blip.tv's videos.

Here's my code. There's no flv. in it...

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf?enablejs=true&file=http%3A%2F%2Fxenotonick%2Eblip%2Etv%2Frss%2Fflash%2F&showplayerpath=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Fscripts%2Fflash%2Fshowplayer%2Eswf" width="400" height="255" allowfullscreen="true" id="showplayer"><param name="movie" value="http://blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf?enablejs=true&file=http%3A%2F%2Fxenotonick%2Eblip%2Etv%2Frss%2Fflash%2F&showplayerpath=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Fscripts%2Fflash%2Fshowplayer%2Eswf" /><param name="quality" value="best" /><embed src="http://blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf?enablejs=true&file=http%3A%2F%2Fxenotonick%2Eblip%2Etv%2Frss%2Fflash%2F&showplayerpath=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Fscripts%2Fflash%2Fshowplayer%2Eswf" quality="best" width="400" height="255" name="showplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>

There's no "copy to Myspace" link either. :-(

Help please?
noahw says: Mar 4, 2008. 1:30 PM
The embed code from Blip has been updated and so we'll need to get a robot to flip a switch over in order to make it work. Until then, I can embed the video for you directly. Can you let me know where you'd like it to go? It's ok if your Instructable isn't published yet - you can still send me it's address in a PM.
jfk says: Jul 15, 2007. 11:35 AM
I've used the following code in double brackets to try to embed a voicethread video, which seems to work halfway:
"Video(http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=409?mediaId=304681&.swf, {width:800, height:600})"


Here's the embed code from the voicethread site if anyone cares to mess with it:
<object width="480" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=409"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=3334" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="480" height="360"></embed></object>

I've tried several mediaids, and I'm not sure what theirs is, or how to find out.

This page plays the explanation video:
http://voicethread.com/view.php?b=409
The same page as a swf link:
http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=409
sam noyoun says: Apr 16, 2007. 3:32 PM
Any chance of extending the list of embeddable players to revver.com?
jeffreyf says: Apr 22, 2007. 4:55 AM
One can do it, but right now it's a bit tricky and requires some URL hacking. If you're interested though, I can add it to the Instructable.
sam noyoun says: Apr 22, 2007. 11:11 AM
Yes please, It'd be fantastic if you could. Thanks
jeffreyf says: Apr 22, 2007. 10:10 PM
Done. See step 3
sam noyoun says: Apr 23, 2007. 2:41 PM
Thanks Jeffreyf!
sam noyoun says: Feb 12, 2007. 12:29 PM
It does not seem to work with metacafe videos... Any idea whether it would be possible to work around that?
ewilhelm (author) says: Feb 12, 2007. 5:18 PM
We'll support them soon. Sorry for the delay.
sam noyoun says: Feb 20, 2007. 5:36 PM
Hi ewilhelm, Any news on the metacafe front? I have 4 or 5 videos that would make nice instructables... Sam
jeffreyf says: Mar 16, 2007. 1:10 PM
Yup. Figured it out.
ewilhelm (author) says: Feb 20, 2007. 6:34 PM
Not yet. Sorry. Other things have us bogged down.
pmac93 says: Mar 8, 2007. 8:05 PM
ewilhelm, Is there any way to use the embed code from your video if you don't have the URL?
ewilhelm (author) says: Mar 9, 2007. 3:57 PM
From which video service?
pmac93 says: Mar 10, 2007. 4:19 PM
Google video. But I got the video working I just wanted to put it on my instructable before they gave me the URL.
esotericsean says: Jul 21, 2006. 7:27 PM
anyone successfully get a video from dailymotion up on instructables? it says invalid movie when i try it.
ewilhelm (author) says: Jul 25, 2006. 11:50 AM
Right now only Yahoo! Video and YouTube are supported. Let me check out dailymotion and maybe we'll get them supported too.
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