How to find a YouTube video on blogger.com

When you want to add a video to your blog post on http://www.blogger.com/ the search mechanism may not be able to find it on YouTube. For example try to search for string Cisco 1 - VXLAN and the Nexus 1000v with Han Yang.

Problem

How to add video from YouTube to your blog.

Solution

• Add a random video from YouTube and copy the HTML code (example bellow)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/lU1GXLSVQOk/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/lU1GXLSVQOk&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/lU1GXLSVQOk&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div>


• Find your video id on YouTube 





• Replace in the HTML code the 3 places with old id lU1GXLSVQOk with the new ID l4JCBq1aXKE