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title: "Embed YouTube videos"
manual: "How to Document"
version: "main"
permalink: "https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/h2document:youtube"
source: "Reference/ReStructuredText/Content/YoutubeVideos.rst"
rendered: "2026-09-19T10:25:29+00:00"
---

# Embed YouTube videos {#youtube}

1.  Get the YouTube ID.

    Example: The URL is `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWkVS9qxBmg`.

    The id is the text after `v=` and up to the next `&` or the end of the
    URL.

    Here: `rWkVS9qxBmg`.
1.  Embed the Video using the ID

    ```rst
    2018-01-19 by Mathias Schreiber

    ..  youtube:: wNxO-aXY5Yw
    ```

    How it looks:

    2018-01-19 by Mathias Schreiber

    [Watch this video on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNxO-aXY5Yw)