WAGTAIL EMBED VIDEOS

Simple app that works similar to wagtailimages, but for embedding YouTube and Vimeo videos and music from SoundCloud. It's an integration of django-embed-video

REQUIREMENTS

    pip install wagtail-embed-videos

    wagtailimages

Quick start

1. Add "embed_video" and "wagtail_embed_videos" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

    INSTALLED_APPS = (
        ...
        'embed_video',
        'wagtail_embed_videos',
        ...
    )
   

2. Run python manage.py makemigrations to create the migration for wagtail_embed_videos models

3. Run python manage.py migrate to create the models of wagtail_embed_videos app

4. Using wagtail_embed_videos:

    from wagtail_embed_videos.edit_handlers import EmbedVideoChooserPanel
   
    class VideoBasedModel(models.Model):
        video = models.ForeignKey(
            'wagtail_embed_videos.EmbedVideo',
            verbose_name="Video",
            null=True,
            blank=True,
            on_delete=models.SET_NULL,
            related_name='+'
        )
        ...
        panels = [EmbedVideoChooserPanel('video')]
   
    # accessing the EmbedVideoField() in the model 'wagtail_embed_videos.EmbedVideo'
    # this is the field used for storing the url of the embed video
    video_based_model_instanse.video.url
   
    # accessing the thumbnail image in the model 'wagtailimages'
    # this is a foreign key to model Image
    video_based_model_instanse.video.thumbnail
   

5. For render your video in a template put {% load embed_video_tags%} for load template tags and put this code where you want render your video: html {% video VideoBasedModel.video.url as video %} {% video video 'small' %} {% endvideo %}

6. Check django-embed-video for more documentation

Release Notes

v0.0.5

• Now it shows the video when editing

v0.0.4

• Auto-create thumbnail images in wagtailimages app with tag 'video-thumbnail'

• EmbedVideoChooserPanel now has a link to create a new embed video instance instead of the form (this is a fix to the problem having nested modals of wagtail)

v0.0.3

• Fixed injection of js file for embed video chooser

• Removed more unnecessary files