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Automatically create Joomla articles from your YouTube account!
Written by Barnaby Dixon
AutoTube checks your YouTube account regularly for new videos, and when it finds one, it uploads it to your Joomla! system, embeds it in an article, adds the title and description, and publishes it in the category of your choice.
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Features:
- Instant creation of new articles
- Embed your YouTube videos automatically
- Add description to your new articles
- Add a link to the original video
- Add optional text above and below the imported description + video
- Select the Section & Category
- Define publish status
- Define how often to check for new videos
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IMPORTANT NOTE
Joomla and the default editors do not allow you to edit articles with embedded flash movies by default. To be able to edit your articles after import, please follow these instructions:
- In the Joomla 1.6+ Article Manager, click OPTIONS, then TEXT FILTERS. Set 'Super User' to 'No Filtering'. For Joomla 1.5, ensure the Filter is NOT highlighted for the Super user. All other users should be 'Blacklist'.
- In Extensions>Plugins edit the Editor - TinyMCE plugin and set Code Cleanup to 'Never'.
- Some other editors also need specific configuration to allow object embedding; if you use an editor other than TinyMCE you will need to check the plugin configuration for more details.
Your Comments
no demo no bay:/
Don´t work
http://www.php-web-design.com/demo/administrator/ login is demo, and pass is demo, don´t open.
I need to see, please, send-me the correct information.
Hi,
I would love to see some demo, maybe some users websites.
It seems to be exactly what i need but i would like to see it first.
Thanks
Hi there Nena,
Please visit http://www.php-web-design.com/demo/administrator/ to see AutoTube in action. The login is demo, and pass is demo, and you'll find AutoTube under Extensions > Plugins. You can then see any generated articles under the Article Manager as you'd expect, and if you set them to Featured, you'll then find them on the front page of the demo site.
All the best - Barnaby Dixon
Thank you Barnaby,
I should say i am impressed, wow i loose so much time :(
This is a great plugin. But i am lazy and a dreamer, lol
Would it be possible to have auto feature ?
I can't wait to try it, thank you
Hi Nena,
Yes AutoTube is fully automated. You just need to set up the details, and it will automatically run, depending on the schedule you have set.
All the best,
Barnaby Dixon
Hi Barnaby,
We upload a lot of different videos to YouTube and don't want all of them to end up on our site. Is there a way to use key words to filter out what gets added from our YouTube channel?
Any chance there is still a version for 1.5?
Hi Barnaby,
I did just that and yes, the plugin immediately published the video. However, as these videos are of a private nature (just my family, my son etc..) I do not want to leave then as public. If I have to go in and manipulate each upload then some of the value of an automated tool is lost.
A few questions:
- Is it possible to hook into the channel rather than the userid?
- Is it possible to extend the plugin to do the following
* The user uploads to youtube with the setting 'Public'
* The plugin, which takes the username & password as input also has the ability set the status of the video to 'Public', 'Unlisted' or 'Private'
Regards,
Prakalp.
Hi Barnaby,
Post installation, I have a video on youtube never previously imported. I set the Last run date to 0 to force a run. The category is published etc.. still no video.
Now the link to the video is in the category 'Unlisted' will this have an impact on the ability of the plugin to reference this video?
Regards,
Prakalp.
Hi Prakalp,
The video has to be publicly available on YouTube to be discovered by AutoTube. Unfortunately there is no way around this. You could, however, just list it publicly for just a few hours, allow AutoTube to find it, and then set it to non-public.
All the best
Barnaby Dixon
PHP Web Design
I had the plugin installed on my site tuvideoclase.com and imported 6.000 videos perfectly. It went back and imported everything. But now I have installed it on a new site, academiausero.com and it doesn't seem to import the old videos. It only updates the new ones. Something misconfigured? Thanks in advance.
Hi Jose,
The plugin should continue to import all videos until your entire channel is imported. The only reason it wouldn't import a video is because it has already been imported once (and for example, you have deleted the article). If you remove any previously imported videos from the article trash, the plugin will attempt to re-import them. Other than that could you please email me your YouTube channel name and I'll check if there's any issues? Thanks,
Barnaby Dixon
Oh, My God... So there are them... joomla changes the state, but you have to delete them. So it's ok now. Wow, great! Thank you, Barnaby.
Barnaby, will you marry me? Now I have learnt, it goes perfect.
I'm already married, but thanks for the offer! I'm very glad it's all working smoothly for you now.
Thanks for the update. Very useful plugin
I'm getting the articles, descriptions, etc.. the only thing missing is the embed code.. I've changed superuser to "no filtering".. I've even tried enabled SCRIPT, OBJECT tags in TinyMCE .I have also tried running the program with NO EDITOR as Joomla default. If I manually type code into articles, I get the embeds and they save. I've tried disabling other system plugins as well just to see if there were conflicts.The plugin seems to not want to add the embed code to my articles no matter what...
running 2.5.6
Hi there Eddie
Thanks for your email. I've never seen a case where the videos weren't imported but the descriptions etc. were. Did you check the AutoTube plugin settings - specifically the 'import video' setting? Other than that I can't think what the problem could be. If it persists, please email me separately with temporary admin access so I can work out what's going on.
Thanks!
Barnaby
Hi again Eddie,
Thank you again for your feedback. I'm afraid that there was a bug introduced in a recent upgrade, which was preventing the videos from importing correctly. I've corrected the problems, so AutoTube should now work correctly. I will email you separately with the upgrade details.
Just so you know, you will need to delete the articles that were previously imported, and then also delete the articles from the Article Trash. After that, the videos should re-import correctly. To trigger an immediate import, set the Last Run setting to 0 in the AutoTube plugin settings.
All the best,
Barnaby Dixon
PHP Web Design
Thanks. The bug has been fixed on importing the videos but I've also noticed, just as someone else, that I cannot import more than the first 25 videos from my channel. It seems to be loading only the first page of results from my youtube feed. I hope you can find a fix for this soon.
Hi Eddie,
With the latest upgrade (1.3.5) AutoTube now is capable of importing up to 10,000 videos from your video stream :-)
All the best,
Barnaby
Hello quera to know if I can see an example or a demo of the extension Autotube, estare to the wait, thank you very much
Hi Sonny,
I'm sorry, there is no demo available, but I have a full money back guarantee if the extension doesn't work for you for any reason.
All the best,
Barnaby
Hi Barnaby. First of all, nice extension - it's light and simple. However I seem to be having a problem with it...
I've got the plugin setup so that it scans my youtube channel, and I can see it's creating articles for the stories (although when I go to edit them they don't have the embedded video, but I'm not too worried about that right now).
My problem is I just can't get the articles to show in the frontend. I've tried menu items for the category as a blog and as a list, but none of the articles created by AutoTube appear - though if I make my own test article in the normal way in the video category it does appear. If I try making a menu item link to a single AutoTube article, I just get a 404 error.
I've tried setting the AutoTube articles as featured, but that doesn't seem to make any difference either.
Running Joomla 2.5.
Hope you can help, seems like a great extension and I just want to get it working ^_^
Hi there,
To set an article to show on the frontend, you need to set it to 'featured'. Then just check it's published and it should show up. You might need to delete or refresh any cache you have within the Joomla admin so the new articles show up.
To edit the article once you've imported the video, set your super admin (you) to No Filtering under Global Configuration > Text filters. This will prevent the YouTube embed code from being stripped automatically when you edit the article.
All the best,
Barnaby Dixon
PHP Web Design
I'm using Joomla 2.5 version. Seems my plugin settings are not being written. The description still displays even though I've set this to No, and the file is not embedding. It just displays a link to the video which opens the video in YouTube in a new browser tab. I have the link setting as No also.
Hi there,
Please note the settings only affect newly imported videos. Previously imported videos will use the settings that were current when they were imported. To re-import your old videos with new settings, just delete your AutoTube articles, then remove them from the Article trash, and they'll be re-imported with your new settings.
All the best - Barnaby
Awesome! I have 7.000 videos on Youtube. I have just installed. Hope it will work out all that videos.
Good module, but I need download video from two or more You Tube - channels. Can you develop it in new version, if its possible. Thanks.
the plugin is working, but I can not import more than 25 videos from my YT-Channel. Any ideas? There are 300videos in my channel to import to joomla.
best regards Frank
Hi Frank,
Thanks for your email, I'm looking into the problem.
All the best,
Barnaby
Hi sorry, joomla 2.5.6 i make many test and the plug in make the articles i can edit but i can't see on mi front page, i tri to copy the html code from generated article and paste to new article manually and work perfectly? also i check mysql and compare with a manual edited article and appare ok?
Thak's for help
Hi Claudio,
Please set the articles you want on the front page to 'featured'. This should work correctly.
All the best - Barnaby
Hi sorry i buy now , thank's for your idea, but i have joomla 2.5.6 a i setup evrithing you say, i soo the new articles on mi backend, but when i link to menu one article i have error 404 whi?
Thank's
Hi Barnaby
I have twice deleted all my (previous, test) articles from my video category to get the plugin to run. Also article trash is empty. There is one video in my channel, but no article is being created. It shows a date in the plugin to prove it ran.
I dont know how to diagnose the problem. Can you help please?
My settings are:
channel: thisweekinthemarkets
internval : day
videos: 5
category: Market View (public, published)
embed video: yes
import desc: yes
addlink :yes
intro desc: 500
last run: 2012-06-20 09:48:13
thanks
Dex
Hi there Dex,
Please try setting the last run to 0 - this forces the plugin to recheck immediately.
All the best,
Barnaby
Hi Barnaby
Yes I have tried that. But funny, I try it now and it works. thanks :)
Excellent extension - very useful.
Dex
Where are these settings? I'm new to Joomla, have uploaded the extension and don't know how to implement it.
thanks
Sorry, nevermind. I found it. If that doesn't demonstrate how good this product is, that an idiot like me can make it work.....
have bought it right away when i saw what it can do, and i was even more impressed of the clean coding style even DOCUMENTATION in the source.
it was easy to follow the sourcecode making my changes to have it work the way i want. *thumbs up* AND no adds anywere ;) thank god there are still some skilled people around here :) keep up the good work.
idea: cronjob script to release my users from slow loading pages.
idea2: more then one youtube user to gather from and more then one categories to create the articles in.
ps: support is great, got instant reply!
have bought it right away when i saw what it can do, and i was even more impressed of the clean coding style even DOCUMENTATION in the source.
it was easy to follow the sourcecode making my changes to have it work the way i want. *thumbs up* AND no adds anywere ;) thank god there are still some skilled people around here :) keep up the good work.
idea: cronjob script to release my users from slow loading pages.
idea2: more then one youtube user to gather from and more then one categories to create the articles in.
ps: support is great, got instant reply!
I don't seem to be able to get anything to show up at all in my plugin. Is there anything specific i need to set up on youtube for it to work, or is there anything like user permissions I have to set up in joomla?
Hi Ian,
Import should be automatic - you won't need special permissions of any kind. Just make sure your Joomla cache is turned off, or limited to say 15 minutes, so the pages are displayed as soon as possible. Also please ensure you've selected a published category for the new articles. The new articles should be in your article manager, if you sort by ID descending, you should find them.
All the best - Barnaby
I need to re-import the YouTube videos.
How do I get the plug-in to run the import again to re-import?
Thanks
Hi there,
To re-import your videos, please completely delete the old articles from your system, including from the article trash. Once they are completely gone, the plugin will re-import them.
All the best,
Barnaby Dixon
After entering the Account Name in the Plug-In manager, how do you make the Plug-In run? I'm not seeing any imports. Joomla.2.5.4.
Hi there,
The plugin runs automatically. Please check you have selected a category for the new articles, and enabled the plugin. After that it will import videos on a regular basis, and start by periodically importing as many as it can find that already exist. Any new videos posted on the youtube channel will be imported as new articles.
Please check the 'Last run' option under the plugin advanced settings. If the setting is 0, it means the plugin hasn't yet run, and you need to enable it.
All the best - Barnaby
How do I make a new video appear on the first page?
All you need to do is set the relevant article to 'Featured'
The plugin works like magic but for some reason the video is showing two instances in every article.
Can you help?
Yes very easy just set the 'embed video in main content' to 'no'
There is only an embed youtube video... and if i set this to no.. it doesnt embed the video at all... it is still embedding my videos twice
Thanks
The video is embedded in your introduction and in your main text area. In your article settings set the 'Show introduction' setting to 'No' to prevent it from showing twice.
i have come to test this plugin and is really handy and especially very easy to work with, thank you so much
looks like if the first video of the username/channel is banned, it will cause the autotube to trip and halt downloading the videos from the channel
As per our email discussion you had already imported the videos so this wasn't a banning issue :D
We have already talked by mail so you could fix some problems.
Now it works without errors on joomla 1.7
Also send you the dutch language 1.5 and the 1.6+ version.
Thanx for this great plugin and i love it!
Thanks for the dutch translation!
As you know from my email I have been looking for a way to integrate my lecture videos on youtube with Joomla, and this works very well. You have saved me a lot of time. Thank you for your efforts, and blessings in all you do. Grace