oEmbed: Support YouTube timestamps as hashes

[danielbachhuber]

YouTube can provide timestamps as a hash, which doesn't get properly processed by the oEmbed endpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A6q6eGM_Aw#t=8m30s

Converting the hash to a proper query argument produces the expected behavior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A6q6eGM_Aw&t=8m30s

Although it's a pain to maintain compatibility shims, including in core would reduce user confusion around oEmbed.

/**
 * Support YouTube timestamp as hash (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A6q6eGM_Aw#t=8m30s)
 * by converting the hash to a query arg
 */
add_filter( 'oembed_fetch_url', function( $provider, $url, $args ) {
	if ( false === stripos( $provider, 'www.youtube.com/oembed' ) || false === stripos( $url, '#t=' ) ) {
		return $provider;
	}
	$url = str_replace( '#t=', '&t=', $url );
	$provider = add_query_arg( 'url', rawurlencode( $url ), $provider );
	return $provider;
}, 10, 3 );

[Viper007Bond]

Agreed. Helpers are annoying, but fixing this issue is worth it.

[swissspidy]

Perhaps other providers support this as well. I know that Vimeo supports that hash, but I think not the query param for embeds.

[peterwilsoncc]

Edge cases need to be dealt with, the first to come to mind is campaign tags and a time stamp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4#utm_source=cats&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_campaign=kittens&t=3s

I'll keep on the milestone for now as I'm working through a patch with a (hopefully soon) first contributor.

[desrosj]

This would still be a really nice enhancement. Adding good-first-bug as a newer contributor should be able dive in on this one.

[psrpinto]

I tested this on version 5.7.2 and the issue appears to have been fixed.

Using both the Classic Editor and the Block Editor, links with the timestamp as either a hash or a query argument, are correctly embedded, and the video is set to the correct timestamp.

Tested with:
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A6q6eGM_Aw#t=8m30s
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A6q6eGM_Aw&t=8m30s

[karpstrucking]

these are working as expected for me as well, marking as a close candidate

[Rahe]

Hello,

Tested on 6.0 with the same urls and it's working as expected.

[peterwilsoncc]

Thanks for retesting folks.

It looks like YouTube have fixed this with their embed code so I will close the ticket. worksforme seems the closest fit even though it didn't work at the time of the report.