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Google Video

When it comes to free video hosting, apparently YouTube isn’t the only kid on the block. Google Video support is here! You didn’t think we would deny you the pleasure of posting videos like this, did you?

This is the code that displays that video (spaces added to force word wrap):

[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=
http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%
26secureurl%3DjQAAAI2D-oeokHvEtP4vUMF6XpEPkLnk1CzCPWh_ceWkgqteI
ts5AhlVKPfw7OTKxfMTnFueC7owITuZG8Bgbq4EjeChTgoTU__CTEDXJH_pKnb-
5HC2YGPArZRmloEk3bAoAvK5__9X1oW8dq0mZ-xFB1-6xdVitpR-FnidBC0Gpx0
gTQjijrq7vrNfCh-mkLIP2g%26sigh%3Dr8uwuHM27caxFbz2AvH3PHkAUpg%26
begin%3D0%26len%3D21366%26docid%3D3728266100951844857&thumbnail
Url=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer%3Fcontentid
%3D7d3c304a1b09e543%26second%3D5%26itag%3Dw320%26urlcreated%3D1
138895377%26sigh%3D7g3V08dj4BKPsDXSwXhOmNiY2fQ&playerId=3728266
100951844857&playerMode=embedded]

You’ll find that long URL in the HTML code provided by Google Video’s “Put on site” feature. To extract the URL, remove everything from <embed to src=" and everything after the next quotation mark (").

Sorry this is harder than the Youtube integration, but Google makes things a little tricky. Enjoy!

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Posted: Monday, February 6th, 2006 at 6:19 am
Filed under: Video.
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78 Responses to “Google Video”

  1. Matt
    February 6th, 2006 at 6:20 am

    By the way, this feature (and post) was brought to you by Andy. :)

  2. sukhbirsingh
    February 6th, 2006 at 6:26 am

    Cool.

  3. laang
    February 6th, 2006 at 6:36 am

    Wow, so cool, looking forward to more features. I really think WordPress.com rocks~

  4. Isaac I. Rodriguez » Google Video habemus
    February 6th, 2006 at 6:52 am

    [...] Voy  a probar la nueva funcionalidad del GoogleVideo en WordPress, thanks Matt!. [...]

  5. MadMark
    February 6th, 2006 at 7:54 am

    Thank you!!

  6. abraham
    February 6th, 2006 at 8:06 am

    Excellent! Thanks.

  7. Ryan B
    February 6th, 2006 at 8:55 am

    sweet

  8. Michael
    February 6th, 2006 at 8:56 am

    This is great! Now I can add even more hilarious videos to my site.

  9. ohmzzz
    February 6th, 2006 at 11:12 am

    Rated EXCELLENT!

  10. Dario Salvelli
    February 6th, 2006 at 12:29 pm

    Very Good ;)

  11. CarLBanks
    February 6th, 2006 at 1:35 pm

    Awesome! WordPress.com rocks!

  12. davidputnam
    February 6th, 2006 at 1:59 pm

    Nice. I get more and more impressed with WordPress everyday.

  13. Free Hogg » WordPress.com adds more video support: Google.
    February 6th, 2006 at 2:44 pm

    [...] The WordPress.com team has brought us another great feature. We can post Google videos now. I’ve never posted a video before, but maybe I should. And even if I never do, I still like knowing that I can. [...]

  14. tommax1083
    February 6th, 2006 at 3:40 pm

    I have tried… but I do not succeed to make it to work :(
    But the code goes inserted in modality HTML?
    Thanks.

  15. drhaisook
    February 6th, 2006 at 4:23 pm

    I appreciate this feature, and thanks, WP..
    but,..

    I hope you introduce some more important features that may be helpful to a wider level of audience. Not all people like videos on their blogs. A more general feature would be nicer.

    Anyways,
    thanks a lot

  16. NET-TEC internet solutions
    February 6th, 2006 at 4:42 pm

    Quite nice feature! :-)
    But where is this video from? Can you take any video, or do you have to take one from Google?

  17. Livia
    February 6th, 2006 at 4:53 pm

    Thanks guys! That rocks!

  18. The Official MartinZ Blog » Google Video
    February 6th, 2006 at 5:05 pm

    [...] WP news announced Google Video support. [...]

  19. MaBU
    February 6th, 2006 at 5:53 pm

    jupp - great.

  20. phasetwo
    February 6th, 2006 at 6:06 pm

    Thanks so much, great work!

  21. CarLBanks
    February 6th, 2006 at 6:34 pm

    Thanks so much Matt. I have been waiting for this.

  22. swiecki
    February 6th, 2006 at 9:10 pm

    brilliant

  23. Brady
    February 6th, 2006 at 11:26 pm

    Amazing, thanks!

  24. Dewayne Mikkelson
    February 7th, 2006 at 1:55 am

    Wow, I did not expect yet another Video option. Great Job!

  25. Peter Weiss » Host my Own FLash & amp Embed Test
    February 7th, 2006 at 6:29 am

    [...] oh this has to be easier or at least better documnetaion to embed a vidwo within http://wordpress.com, then this new posting that made made on Matt’s front page [...]

  26. பெட?டிக?கடை » கூகிள? வீடியோ
    February 7th, 2006 at 1:44 pm

    [...] ஒர? சாம?பிள? - உபயதார?: மேட? ம?ல?லென?வெக? (வோர?ட?பிரஸ? சிற?பி) [...]

  27. CarLBanks
    February 7th, 2006 at 3:55 pm

    I notice a white box on the Google Video in this blog entry.

  28. Krec!K
    February 7th, 2006 at 6:21 pm

    it’s good tag :) google videos :) nice feauture :)

  29. Steph
    February 7th, 2006 at 9:47 pm

    How about http://dailymotion.com/ support, too? It’s a great service!

  30. russellreno
    February 8th, 2006 at 3:32 am

    I am so glad I switched to WordPress.

  31. Steph
    February 8th, 2006 at 3:19 pm

    Hi! I thought I’d commented this already, but it seems I haven’t. Could we please have support for http://dailymotion.com/ too? It’s a service similar to YouTube (and imho, nicer: no watermarking, less clutter).

    Having the choice of Google Video is already great, but I’d really love Daily Motion support :-)

  32. Steph
    February 8th, 2006 at 3:25 pm

    If you support it I promise to do tons of video blogging :-D

  33. Donncha
    February 8th, 2006 at 3:28 pm

    just testing a little bit!

  34. Stargazer’s World of Steamworks & Magicks » Wordpress now has Google Video support
    February 9th, 2006 at 9:27 am

    [...] Nice! Now you can embed Google Videos into your blog posts! You can find a description on how it works here. [...]

  35. constantlysu
    February 9th, 2006 at 9:58 am

    hey, all these hype and positive feedback seem so fake to me.

    get real guys. blogger.com don’t even have all thesehassle of modifying HTML codes, and you guys applause when wordpress.com give you all these limitations?

    seriously, get real.

  36. tommax1083’s blog » Speriamo che questa volta funga…
    February 9th, 2006 at 11:00 am

    [...] Il video l’ho preso dalla pagina dove veniva spiegato come mettere i video di Google. [...]

  37. clevergael
    February 9th, 2006 at 7:11 pm

    Matt,
    I don’t know if it’s google’s problem or mine, but I can’t get it to work. They player shows up, but no video. I think it’s a great feature, just spell it out for us noobs a little more. ;)
    Thanks!

  38. RyanC
    February 12th, 2006 at 12:53 am

    It would be cool if these sort of clever features were on the editor window, sort of like click here and it will ask you for the URL and then insert the code for you, just a reminder of the extra features that are available for new users who may not have spotted this news post and the previous YouTube one :)

  39. hombrelobo
    February 12th, 2006 at 10:30 pm

    Thanks! good job!

  40. overburn
    February 14th, 2006 at 5:43 am

    Everytime i try to post a google video the editor automatically links the url between [googlevideo= ... ] … no matter how many times i tell it to unlink it… :(

  41. Brad
    February 14th, 2006 at 9:14 pm

    Um, It wont work for me :-(. I’m using a new template, maybe thats why.

  42. ilalang
    February 15th, 2006 at 3:29 am

    wow it’s so cool

  43. e-learning » Blog Archive » video
    February 16th, 2006 at 1:29 pm

    [...] http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/02/06/google-video/ [...]

  44. vdovault
    February 16th, 2006 at 2:51 pm

    This is nice to support another video format, but when I tried to embed youtube.com videos in my posts, it made the loading of my blog really slow for me (and I am on DSL) — so I post links out to my videos.

    Still waiting on my customizable header — is that so much to ask? All I wanna do is swap a picture for a boring plain solid color header.

  45. blaze
    February 16th, 2006 at 3:36 pm

    Hahahahaha that gazella ran into a tree!!!!!!

    But seriously… nice work guys cheers.

  46. rakhesh shows … » Posting Google Video Video’s to your site
    February 18th, 2006 at 2:40 pm

    [...] Go figure. § [...]

  47. 4elearning
    February 19th, 2006 at 5:44 pm

    Pretty good.. Have you see http://www.golakes.co.uk/baarmysheep/

  48. shorty114 on wordpress.com » Matrix Ping Pong
    February 25th, 2006 at 4:14 am

    [...] Edit: For some reason WordPress.com’s stripping out the <embed> tags. Weird. Turns out there’s a special way. [...]

  49. office
    February 27th, 2006 at 5:17 am

    I just found out that I can add google videos! Cooool! Keep up the good work!

  50. Ninety-Six » Blog Archive » Google your life (some more)
    February 27th, 2006 at 9:12 am

    [...] J’avais ouvert il y a pas mal de temps un compte pour le programme de téléchargement de vidéo de Google, sans ni l’utiliser (ce qui devrait bientôt changer), ni m’y intéresser plus avant. Puis, il y a peu, WordPress.com annoncent dans une news qu’ils supportent les vidéos Google encapsulées dans les billets, attirant à nouveau ma curiosité. [...]

  51. Om ter saaist » Video op Wordpress.com
    March 1st, 2006 at 2:27 pm

    [...] Leuk voor de Borat-fans en andere funny-video verzamelaars: WordPress.com heeft nu support ingebakken voor Youtube als Google Video.  So now,  without further ado, here’s Ali G on drugs: [...]

  52. Ninety-Six » Blog Archive » [video] Google your life (some more)
    March 8th, 2006 at 12:15 pm

    [...] J’avais ouvert il y a pas mal de temps un compte pour le programme de téléchargement de vidéo de Google, sans l’utiliser (ce qui devrait bientôt changer), ni m’y intéresser plus avant. Puis, il y a peu, WordPress.com annoncent dans une news qu’ils supportent les vidéos Google encapsulées dans les billets, attirant à nouveau ma curiosité. [...]

  53. home » Blog Archive » Googlevideo
    April 2nd, 2006 at 5:26 pm

    [...] Toll. Google Video Videos direkt auf der eigenen Seite mit WordPress einbinden. Eine Anleitung, wies geht, gibts hier. [...]

  54. Thoughts, Raves and Outright Beatings… » Blog Archive » Wordpress.com N00B luv…
    May 15th, 2006 at 2:11 pm

    [...] There's also a workaround for google videos, but it's a bit more complex. The video also has to be embeddable, which is why you can still link to Colbert's slingfest at the Press Association from last week at video.google.com (changed my links from last Sunday and Thursday to reflect such), but you can't pass the visuals around on your blog the way you can with other google vids. [...]

  55. ditchthedummy
    May 15th, 2006 at 6:55 pm

    excellent! thanks so much and it made me laugh to!!!

  56. Frequently Asked Questions » Blog Archive » Music, videos and podcasts
    May 20th, 2006 at 6:54 pm

    [...] Videos can be linked from Google video  and You Tube. [...]

  57. ehrenwimpel » Blog Archive » Umzug fertig
    May 20th, 2006 at 9:04 pm

    [...] Bin schon leicht begeistert wie schnell sowas geht. Dank automatischem Import von Blogger zu WordPress.com in ein paar Minuten. Einzig die Google-Videos werden nicht übernommen. Aber dafür und für Youtube.com gibt es hier und hier Anleitungen. Jetzt hab ich auch endlich fiese Kategorien und Trackbackfunktion [...]

  58. Loretxoa » Probando con Google Video
    May 21st, 2006 at 6:33 pm

    [...] Encontré este artículo en el que explica el chaval cómo introducir un vídeo de Google en el blog de WordPress. He hecho media docena de ensayos y nada chicos. Y el tema no es baladí, porque si además de YouTube podemos introducir Google Videos nuestras fuentes de vídeo se multiplicarían. ensayo-error-ensayo-error-ensayo-error… [...]

  59. Ali Asger
    May 22nd, 2006 at 2:23 pm

    hmmmmmmmm fabulous………..hahahah nice one…..its really made me laugh,

  60. Loretxoa » Perdiendo el tiempo con Google Vídeos
    May 22nd, 2006 at 3:55 pm

    [...] Entre la tarde de ayer y la de hoy habré invertido 3 ó 4 horas de mi preciado tiempo tratando de insertar un vídeo de Google Videos en este blog de WordPress. Teniendo en cuenta que conseguí clavar por fin los de YouTube, me las prometía felices. Pero me estoy encendiendo por momentos. Gracias a este post de Matt me las prometía muy felices, pero estoy perdiendo la paciencia. [...]

  61. Constantin Cocioaba - personal blog » Blog Archive » Looks like a pretty hairy situation, June …
    May 27th, 2006 at 10:54 pm

    [...] … and a video that made my day! Stay tooned until the end please! It worth it! Play: No Scruf News! My libido went down 80% after this mouvie. No. Make it 100%. PS. Can anyone teach me how I can use google videos with wordpress? Seems to me that this WordPress news doesn’t worked for me. No Tags [...]

  62. aabiransabeel
    June 19th, 2006 at 1:17 pm

    Sweet, thank you.

  63. Gerre’s Hideout » Blog Archive » [Tutorial] Video op Wordpress.com (with English version)
    June 23rd, 2006 at 9:09 am

    [...] Gezien een aantal van de searchopdrachten lijken te landen op het feit dat ik in vroegere posts al eens geklaagd heb over het feit dat ik geen video in WordPress.com kreeg. Ik heb daarbij links geplaatst naar de tutorials door WordPress zelf geschreven. Echter, ik heb zelf gemerkt dat de Google Video Tutorial niet meer klopt, gezien Google zelf z'n tags heeft aangepast. In ieder geval, bij deze zal ik eventjes een korte tutorial schrijven over hoe je nu net video op je WordPress.com blog kan krijgen. [...]

  64. The Pilgrim » Blog Archive » Publicar vídeos en Wordpress
    June 23rd, 2006 at 3:05 pm

    [...] Es sabido por todos que los vídeos de YouTube y Google Video es posible visualizarlos en una página web mediante un fragmento de código html que embebe un reproductor flash en la misma. Hasta este pasado mes de Enero, esto resultaba del todo imposible en los blogs hospedados en WordPress.com debido a las limitaciones de seguridad, impuestas por el servicio de hosting, que no permitía pegar código arbitrario en los blogs. Sin embargo esta situación ha cambiado radicalmente hasta el punto que el equipo de WordPress.com no sólo ha facilitado esta característica a sus usuarios, sino que además ha simplificado enormemente la publicación de este tipo de material multimedia a través de una sencilla sintaxis para YouTube y para Google Video. Para muestra un botón. En el siguiente vídeo en el que los siempre inquietos japoneses nos descubren una sencilla manera de pelar patatas hervidas :-) [...]

  65. ThaiBlogger.org: You are what you blog » Google Video ใน WordPress.com
    July 7th, 2006 at 7:28 am

    [...] อ่านเพิ่มเติม: http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/02/06/google-video/ [...]

  66. Roadster_Brabus
    July 17th, 2006 at 4:10 am

    Works perfectly! :D

  67. rollmops
    July 22nd, 2006 at 12:33 pm

    Does anyone know how to change the size of the embedded video?

  68. latindancelust
    July 24th, 2006 at 7:06 am

    Thanks! I’ve been trying to figure this out all day!

  69. expresscheckout
    July 30th, 2006 at 9:32 am

    The Google Video page doesn’t seem to have “Put on site” anymore, so I can’t get the long URL to put the video in. Anyone know where I can find it?

  70. hundredfires
    August 25th, 2006 at 2:39 pm

    I agree with expresscheckout, I can’t find where in Google Video I can get that long URL. Any idea ? There is not a “Put on site” button anymore

  71. pieterr
    August 30th, 2006 at 8:31 am

    Hi,

    What about an [mp3:] syntax, that would insert an inline flash player like the one in Podpress: http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/ ?

    regards,

    pieterr

  72. guideinfo
    September 3rd, 2006 at 7:42 am

    google has removes this feature?

  73. Odeo Support « The Official MartinZ Blog
    October 1st, 2006 at 3:10 pm

    [...] Odeo is a neat podcasting and audio company run by some folks, and WordPress.com have been getting more and more requests to support Odeo embedding, just like  Google and Youtube. Just copy and paste the URL in your address bar, it should look like this: http://odeo.com/audio/1968091/view., and write it out like this . Then you will get a nice audio player like this: [...]

  74. I love Wordpress! « Γιώργος Μαργαρίτης
    December 2nd, 2006 at 7:12 pm

    [...] Μία που είπα για το ODEO, ας κάνω και ένα κόπο να δώσω και 2 links για το πως μπορείτε να κάνετε embed Google videos και Youtube videos (για τα youtube videos η λογίκη είναι ίδια με του ODEO: (youtube=”url” ;) όπου αντί για ( ) βάζετε [ ]. Το Google video είναι λίγο πιο tricky) [...]

  75. Shane Bill
    December 24th, 2006 at 7:55 am

    It has changed but I think I figured it out!!! YAAH!

    So you want to use the followings steps.

    1) Change to the code view when posting a new message.
    2) Type [googlevideo= in the code view.
    3) In the Google video there is a button you can press the "Email-Blog-MySpace" button
    4) It will expand into a new section
    5) Beside the bolded "Send Link" click on the "Embed HTML" link -- getting there!
    6) Copy the entire text from the window that appears
    7) As stated above just cut out the text between the quotations after the src= bit. 8) So if you had src="http://video.google.com/somestuff"
    9) You would end up with a link http://video.google.com/somestuff
    http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=1741400817038199654&hl=en
    10) Place this after the [googlevideo= bit and you're done
    11) Add an end brace --> ]
    12) You’ll get [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/somestuff] (don’t forget the end brace.

    Happy vidoeing!

  76. Embed Google Video & Odeo In Wordpress « Twist & Shout
    December 26th, 2006 at 1:42 pm

    [...] It’s not as difficult as explained here. Use the code below and replace XYZ in Italic Bold with your video’s docId: [...]

  77. oracles
    March 2nd, 2007 at 2:02 am

    Thank you Shane !

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    February 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 pm

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