YouTube url

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I am running a scenario where I am taking a combination of older and newer YouTube videos from our channel and uploading to different social media. I am running into an issue pulling the url from the YouTube scenario. All I find is the YouTube video id. I tried using an rss feed but it only pulls the newest url. Any help would be appreciated.

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Hi @Tim_Terry

You can create the url for youtube. Copy any url from youtube and pass in your make scenario, and replace the id with the preceding module.

Regards,
Msquare Automation - Gold Partner of Make
@Msquare_Automation

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Welcome to the Make community!

You can build the YouTube video URL simply by appending the Video ID after this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

e.g.:

Screenshot_2024-08-29_220844
Screenshot_2024-08-29_220844959Ă—380 58.7 KB

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew

P.S.: Did you know, the concepts of about 70% of questions asked on this forum are already covered in the Make Academy. Investing some effort into it will save you lots of time and frustration using Make later!

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Thank you for your help! A follow up question is there a way to automate an embedded video on to Facebook. Currently I have a scenario that publishes to Facebook with a link to YouTube but I was trying to figure out a way to embed the video if possible. I’ve tried converting the url to a file using the http get a file tool and uploading that to Facebook but it’s in an unsupported format. I’ve tried downloading the file from the url and I get the same error. Is it an issue with Facebook? Thanks again for your help, very new to automation.

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Could you please create a separate topic for this?

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Thanks!

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew

P.S.: Did you know, the concepts of about 70% of questions asked on this forum are already covered in the Make Academy. Investing some effort into it will save you lots of time and frustration using Make later!