2

As you can guess from the title, I'm the new webmaster for a student TV channel and I need to update the site.

The site needs to pull in YouTube videos from a channel, embed the video player and display a brief description of the video, along with information about the cast & crew involved in the production.

I'm using Drupal 7, and have tried various YouTube modules (Media_YouTube, YouTube feeds importer, YouTube Pull, YouTube field) and haven't had success with any - some just put the URL as text in the node, others haven't pulled in the videos at all. It hasn't been a pleasant experience :(

Can anyone recommend a module which will allow me to create a node for every video on the YouTube channel? It would have to be able to mass-import the videos as theres ~500 on the channel at the moment and I really don't want to have to import them manually... Ideally it would periodically check for updates, but that isn't crucial if I can manually add them after the import.

Edit - This has been broken into two questions as suggested by a comment below. See here for the other part.

Thanks!

Improve this question
7
  • Hello jackweirdy, welcome to DA! Could you please break your question down into two separate ones? I don't want to answer both here, and don't know which one of the two to address.
    – Letharion
    Commented Nov 23, 2012 at 9:43
  • I've done that now, see drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/51243/…
    – jackweirdy
    Commented Nov 23, 2012 at 14:48
  • what was the issue with youtube feed importer? I'm browsing around and find that this should be a simply solution to what you are looking for. also, was "feeds" module setup correctly?
    – au_stan
    Commented Nov 23, 2012 at 17:45
  • It created a node for every video, but just put the YouTube extension there (IE watch?v=rgrirrg) instead of embedding the video with the youtube player. I'm pretty sure I set up feeds correctly, but since it's the first time I've done it I can't say for certain.
    – jackweirdy
    Commented Nov 23, 2012 at 18:32
  • I'm struggling with the same issue - embedding YouTube videos taken in from a feed. LIke jackweirdy, I've tried the various modules (Media_YouTube, YouTube feeds importer, YouTube Pull, YouTube field) with the same level of success - some just put the URL as text in the node, others haven't pulled in at all. And like you, I have not had a pleasant experience.
    – Tim
    Commented Feb 11, 2013 at 20:33

0

Reset to default

Your Answer

By clicking “Post Your Answer”, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our privacy policy.

Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.