YouTube thumbnail in an image or file widget

[lorensansol]

When entering the URL of a YouTube video in an image or file field, it would be great to preview its thumbnail, both in the widget and in the preview (also when inserting image URLs in markdown).

[kyoshino]

Actually the Video widget is coming shortly, of course with a thumbnail.

You can already enter a YouTube URL in a String field to see the preview 🙂

From the README:

When a YouTube video URL is entered in a String field, it appears as an embedded video in the preview pane.

[kyoshino]

Inserting a video to a Markdown field will also be supported because my client wants it. Basically I’m going to effectively solve these two issues:

• HTML5 video widget decaporg/decap-cms#2744
• add video to post body decaporg/decap-cms#3798

[lorensansol]

Yeah, I knew about the text string, that's cool 🤩.

I would love to be able to use the image widget but also have it support videos, both from the gallery and by URL and YouTube.

For this I see that I can use the file widget, which is fully functional. The bad thing is:

• YouTube video thumbnail is not displayed.
• It is not possible to filter files by type or extension.

If you create a new video widget with thumbnails, great, but if you restrict the selection of files only to video type, I would be forced to add one more parameter.

Wouldn't it be simpler to have a single widget of type file with a filter by type/extensions? For example “mimetypes”: [“image”, “video”, “text”, ...].

[kyoshino]

Yeah, I’m also thinking about adding a filter option to the File widget. That’s

• Feature: Allow filtering when using the file widget decaporg/decap-cms#1345

The new Video widget is specifically for video, including YouTube/Vimeo and stock videos from Pexels/Pixabay.

[lorensansol]

¡Genial, gracias!