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

You have install wagtail-embedvideos package, use the common command:

    pip install wagtail-embed-videos

You need add wagtailimages to the current settings, is by default in any wagtail project.

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')]

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:

   {% video VideoBasedModel.video.url as video %}
       {% video video 'small' %}
   {% endvideo %}

6. Check django-embed-video for more documentation.

Use EmbedVideo API:

You can get access to the model in python with the next instructions:

        # 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

EmbedVideo Block

You can use EmbedVideo in StreamFields too, an example:

    from wagtail_embed_videos.blocks import EmbedVideoChooserBlock

       ...
    
       class EmbedVideoFormatChoiceBlock(FieldBlock):
            field = forms.ChoiceField(
                choices=(
                    ('left', 'Wrap left'),
                    ('right', 'Wrap right'),
                    ('half', 'Half width'),
                    ('full', 'Full width'),
                )
            )
        
        
        class EmbedVideoBlock(StructBlock):
            video = EmbedVideoChooserBlock()
            alignment = ImageFormatChoiceBlock()
            caption = CharBlock()
            attribution = CharBlock(required=False)
        
            class Meta:
                icon = 'media'
    
    
        class StoryBlock(StreamBlock):
            ...
            aligned_video = EmbedVideoBlock(label=_('Aligned video'))
            ...

Extend EmbedVideo model

You can extend the EmbedVideo model in the same way that wagtail image models. Use this setting: WAGTAILEMBEDVIDEO_VIDEO_MODEL

Release Notes

v0.0.6

• Now is possible create video collections.
• Documentation about extend the embed video model.
• Documentation about embed video blocks for stream field.

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