# How to post Youtube Shorts on the Forum

**URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/how-to-post-youtube-shorts-on-the-forum/62742
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**Created:** [February 15, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/how-to-post-youtube-shorts-on-the-forum/62742 "2023-02-15T15:33:32Z")
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### Author: ![tommo](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/tommo/32/166_2.png) [@tommo](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/tommo)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/how-to-post-youtube-shorts-on-the-forum/62742/1 "2023-02-15T15:33:32Z")

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2 quick notes on posting YT videos, since YT has now introduced this infuriating “shorts” feature that messes up the embedding on our forum:

1. before copying the link, while you are on YT, change the “shorts/” part of the URL: into “watch?v=”.

So instead of this:

![image](https://forum.troygrady.com/uploads/default/original/2X/3/31e6c6d9f24f27228abf84a4b77dcb6d171928bd.png)

 ![image](https://forum.troygrady.com/uploads/default/original/2X/7/73abd4f25afad813abcfcba0c3012ecdcc4a48be.jpeg)

You want this:

![image](https://forum.troygrady.com/uploads/default/original/2X/e/eb73ee0dc6cebc4c97bade92b01fe3e928ea46d7.png)

this should send you to a “normal youtube view” of the clip, from which you can copy the URL:

 ![image](https://forum.troygrady.com/uploads/default/original/2X/6/69540f750a3ddc2d9d12e8a6278b5989d7dc8d35.jpeg)

This should be the correct one for embedding.

1. post only the url in its separate line (do not put spaces or other letters/symbols before and after):

some text

youtube address

some more text

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### Author: ![Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/pepepicks66/32/8255_2.png) [@Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Pepepicks66)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/how-to-post-youtube-shorts-on-the-forum/62742/2 "2023-02-15T19:26:22Z")

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Another option for y’all that I’ve been doing:

(For the examples below, I added a space before “.com” and “.be” so the link would break and you can see the formatting)

Get the shorts link:

[https://youtube](https://youtube) .com/shorts/kepmfBXoew0?feature=share

Then replace “[youtube.com/shorts/](http://youtube.com/shorts/)” with “.be/”:

[https://youtu](https://youtu) .be/kepmfBXoew0?feature=share

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### Author: ![tommo](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/tommo/32/166_2.png) [@tommo](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/tommo)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2023, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/how-to-post-youtube-shorts-on-the-forum/62742/3 "2023-02-15T20:03:28Z")

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Ooh much better thank you!!