---
title:  "Embedding a YouTube video"
content_type: Video
description: "If you have video on youtube, you can embed it by finding its youtube ID and using the correct Liquid shortcode"

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Adding a (Youtube) video is as easy as finding the ID, and making a call like this:

~~~
{{"{%"}} include widgets/youtube_embed.html video_id="Ll5hBN6Dh5M" %}
~~~

The result will look like this:

{% include widgets/youtube_embed.html video_id="Ll5hBN6Dh5M" %}


### More text

Remember that this is just a post, so you can add whatever text/photos/etc you want to this item. You can even embed another video. In the call below, I specify the width and height, which are both optional:

{% include widgets/youtube_embed.html video_id="dfCd2eQfueY" width="400" height="300" %}