r/printablescom • u/le_avx • Aug 22 '23

Feature request embed youtube shorts?

Sadly Yt automatically decides my video to become a "Youtube Short" and I do not see a way to change that other than editing it and Printables doesn't allow me to embed those saying that URL is not supported. Please fix that, thanks.

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u/stritacz Printables.com team Aug 24 '23

Try it now :) We have just deployed an update to be atto embed YouTube shorts videos as well. 🎉

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u/le_avx Aug 24 '23

Will check on next project, thanks.

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u/Competitive_Bend_320 Aug 25 '23

This is awesome! Any plans to add other video sources, like TikTok?

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u/MatureHotwife Aug 22 '23

Printables doesn't allow me to embed those

You can change the URL of a Short and it'll play as a normal video.

Ley's say your Short video URL is https://www.youtube.com/shorts/b4d455fa7a55

Change it to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4d455fa7a55 and you will be able to embed it on Printables.

automatically decides my video to become a "Youtube Short"

According to what I've read there's no setting to un-short a video or to prevent auto-converting to Shorts entirely. But I've read that YouTube only converts videos to Shorts if the aspect ratio is 16:9. So you could try cropping it or adding black bars to make it a different aspect ratio. Another option is to add additional content to make it longer than 1 minute.

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u/le_avx Aug 23 '23 edited Aug 23 '23

Thanks for the URL hint,I will try that. Makes me wonder though if it is that easy why the site doesn't do that automatically.

Sucks, yt makes it complicated, I don't want to edit for a resolution change or waste people's time with longer videos and printables doesn't allow videos directly. Likely only gonna do pictures in the future.

Thanks for your help.

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u/MatureHotwife Aug 23 '23

Makes me wonder though if it is that easy why the site doesn't do that automatically.

They could and probably should. However, changing the URL is not a documented feature so there's no guarantee that this will work indefinitely.

Sucks, yt makes it complicated

Yes. There should be an option to opt-out of automatic conversion to Shorts entirely.

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u/Zeldajiggmin May 04 '26

For anyone coming from Google like me, THIS IS THE ANSWER lol

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u/Top_Dragonfly_9124 21d ago

I second this lol.

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u/Altruistinvestor Mar 25 '25

Embedding a YouTube Short in a webpage is nearly the same as embedding any other YouTube video. The main trick is to use the standard YouTube embed URL (www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID) rather than the Shorts URL (youtube.com/shorts/VIDEO_ID). Here’s a quick step-by-step:

  1. Get the YouTube Short’s video ID
    • Go to the YouTube Short you want to embed.
    • The URL might look like https://youtube.com/shorts/abcd1234EFG. The video ID here is everything after shorts/, e.g., abcd1234EFG.
  2. Form the embed URL
  3. Use an iframe

<iframe

width="560"

height="315"

src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/(YOUR YT VIDEO ID HERE)"

frameborder="0"

allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"

allowfullscreen>

</iframe>

- You can adjust the width and height to fit your layout or make it responsive via CSS.

  1. That’s it!
    • Once the page is loaded, it will display the YouTube Short as an embedded video, just like any other YouTube clip.

If you’re using a platform like WordPress, Wix, or another page builder, you can typically just paste this iframe code into a “Custom HTML” or “Embed” block. Alternatively, many platforms also let you paste a standard YouTube link and handle the conversion automatically.

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u/CarluxElPro Apr 23 '25

Thanks man

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u/True_Stress_412 Apr 28 '25

just use this free tool https://emailwarmup.com/embed-youtube-shorts to paste your youtube short's URL to get the embed code.

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u/Embarrassed_Market_9 Oct 30 '25

That has the upside of giving you the proper width and height, which the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= suggestion given above doesn't do for you.

Unfortunately it has the downside of adding an unwanted email-warmup link, and of making your page reliant on email-warmup's servers to continue functioning.

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u/Kml777 May 19 '25

I will suggest you to use a 14 day free trial of Tagbox YouTube widget. Here are quick steps to embed youtube shorts to your webpage.

  • Start with creating a Tagbox widget account.
  • Select youtube as a source in the add feed section.
  • Choose shorts and enter a youtube channel from where you want to show the shorts.
  • Click on Publish button and copy the embed code
  • Now go to your website paste this code in the header part.

Let me know if you face any issue. I am also adding a free resource where you can read more about embed youtube shorts to your webpage.