Template:Yt: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 22:42, 25 December 2023

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This is a template to link to YouTube Channels. The template has been future-proofed in the case of YouTube making yet another url format

{{yt| type | id | description }}

type - the portion in the url in between slashes, can be user (u), channel (ch), @, custom (cu) (for vanity urls) or the user id itself!
id - the last portion of the URL to a YouTube profile, after user/, channel, @ or youtube.com/ and youtube.com/c/ in case of custom URLs .
description (optional) - replaces the profile name with your text

Note: do not use whitespace immediately before or after vertical bars or curly brackets

{{yt|id|description}}
{{yt|u|id|description}}
{{yt|user|id|description}}
{{yt|id|description}}

produces:

{{yt|ch|id|description}}
{{yt|channel|id|description}}
{{yt|c|id|description}}

produces:

{{yt|c2|id|description}}

produces:

{{yt|@|id|description}}
{{yt|custom|@id|description}}
{{yt|cu|@id|description}}

produces:

{{yt|custom|customurl|description}}
{{yt|cu|customurl|description}}

produces:

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Yt/doc. (edit \| history) Changes can be experimented in this template's sandbox (create \| mirror) and testcases (create) pages. Please add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

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-#REDIRECT [[Template:Ytuser]]
+<includeonly>{{ws|YouTube Favicon.png|http://www.youtube.com/{{#switch:{{{1}}}
+|user=user/{{{2}}}
+|channel=channel/{{{2}}}
+|c2=c/{{{2}}}
+|@=@{{{2}}}
+|custom={{{2}}}
+|u=user/{{{2}}}
+|c=channel/{{{2}}}
+|ch=channel/{{{2}}}
+|cu={{{2}}}
+|user/{{{1}}}
+}}|{{{3|{{{2|{{{1|}}}}}}}}}}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{documentation}} [[Category:Link Templates]]</noinclude>