Videos

If your Markdown application supports [HTML](http://www.bixiaguangnian.com/manual/markdown/4111.html "HTML"), you should be able to embed a video in your Markdown file by copying and pasting the HTML code provided by a video website like YouTube or Vimeo. If your Markdown application doesn’t support HTML, you can’t embed a video, but you can come close by adding an [image](http://www.bixiaguangnian.com/manual/markdown/4109.html "image") and a link to the video. You could do this with practically any video on any video service.

Since YouTube makes this easy, we’ll use them as an example. Take this video, for instance: `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q2IjQOzVpE`. The last part of the URL (`8q2IjQOzVpE`) is the ID of the video. We can take that ID and put it in the following template:

```
[![Image alt text](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YOUTUBE-ID/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUTUBE-ID)
```

YouTube automatically generates an image for every video (`https://img.youtube.com/vi/YOUTUBE-ID/0.jpg`), so we can use that and link the image to the video on YouTube. After we replace the image alt text and add the ID of the video, our example looks like this:

```
[![Less Than Jake — Scott Farcas Takes It On The Chin](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PYCxct2e0zI/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYCxct2e0zI)
```

The rendered output looks like this:

[![Less Than Jake — Scott Farcas Takes It On The Chin](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PYCxct2e0zI/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYCxct2e0zI)