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Dennis Donovan

(28,451 posts)
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 10:28 AM Monday

How to get YouTube "shorts" videos to play on DU

Last edited Mon Jan 27, 2025, 11:23 AM - Edit history (1)

Hi Everyone. There's a way to get YouTube "Shorts" videos to display and play on DU:

1) Copy the video's URL (for example) :


2) After copying/pasting the URL in your post, remove shorts/ and replace it with watch?v=

3) Your link to the video should now look like this:



It will now display and play on DU.

On edit - I had my syntax mixed up - straightened out now. My apologies.



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How to get YouTube "shorts" videos to play on DU (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Monday OP
Steps 2 and 3 do not agree with each other. TexasTowelie Monday #1
It's highplainsdem Monday #3
Thanks! Just tested it, and it does work. Great tip! highplainsdem Monday #2
Thanks! Believe it or not, I know how to do this Rhiannon12866 Monday #4
Thank you for your hard work in videos! Dennis Donovan Monday #5
Thanks! Rhiannon12866 Monday #6

TexasTowelie

(118,360 posts)
1. Steps 2 and 3 do not agree with each other.
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 11:08 AM
Monday

In step 2 it states watch=?v. Meanwhile, in step 3 the print screen shows the = sign is placed differently showing watch?v=.

highplainsdem

(53,396 posts)
3. It's
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 11:15 AM
Monday
watch?v= (and I hadn't even noticed the typo in the previous line, since I'm so familiar with YT urls).

Rhiannon12866

(226,833 posts)
4. Thanks! Believe it or not, I know how to do this
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 11:27 AM
Monday

But I'll bookmark this just in case, since I generally have to check the last one I did to remind myself.

Rhiannon12866

(226,833 posts)
6. Thanks!
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 11:48 AM
Monday

EarlG made me host and you know I take my duties here seriously. And if I can find my Joy Reid short again, that's how I remember to do this. I know that I'll never know as much as you do, but then I only knew one girl in college who went anywhere near a computer - and she was a math major, not exactly my subject!

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