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How to Find You Tube Permalink URLs

VideoLessons — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:30:31 -08:00

You Tube videos are some of the easiest to embed. Typically all you need to do is copy and paste the uniform resource locator (URL) from your browser into the video URL text box when creating or editing a post. If you are watching a video as part of a playlist, channel, or while managing your own videos there may be additional characters in the URL that could make the browser copy and paste method ineffective. To make sure you are using the permalink URL always use the URL located below the video description on the upper right hand side of the page. This is clearly identified as "URL" and located directly above what You Tube wants you to use for embedding their videos that is labeled "EMBED". DO NOT USE YOU TUBE'S EMBED CODE! Instead just use the URL and our code will do the rest. This method not only makes the video fit our dimensions, but eliminates many annoying tags and links that You Tube includes with their code. See the area of the image on this page circled in green.
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Standard Flash Video Embedding Instructions

VideoLessons — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:48:44 -08:00

Browser URL You can add any standard Adobe Flash file with a uniform resource locator (URL) that ends in the .swf file extension to the video URL text box on post creation and editing forms. In cases where the URL in your browser ends in .swf just copy and paste. Embedded URL If the video you want to embed comes with embed code you may be able to find a Flash URL by looking for a string of characters beginning with "http:" and ending with ".swf". URL in Page Info Sometimes you can find a Flash URL in FireFox by right clicking, selecting "View Page Info", and clicking on "media" option. URL in Page Source Sometimes you can find a Flash URL by looking at the source code of the page. In Internet Explorer you can do this by selecting "view" and scrolling down to "source". Hidden URL If all else fails the website has gone to lengths to hide the Flash URL or they may use another format. In either case you may still be able to find the source URL using special software.
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How to Find Video URLs on MTV, VH1, and Comedy Central

VideoLessons — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:31:35 -08:00

MTV, VH1, and Comedy Central videos are hard to embed. This is because you CAN NOT just copy and paste the URL from your browser into the video URL text box when creating or editing a post. Instead you must locate the source URL in the embed code that they provide, find it among large amounts of irrelevant code, copy it, and then past it into the video URL textbox. This is best done by copying the code into notepad and finding the line of code that starts with "http://media.mtvnservices.com/" circled in the image on this page.
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How to Embed Meta Cafe Videos Using Source URLs

VideoLessons — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:30:33 -08:00

Meta Cafe videos are some of the easiest videos from supported sites to embed. All you need to do is copy and paste the URL from your browser into the video URL text box on the No Limit List posting form or using your account manager. Meta Cafe does offer it's own embed code, but it is full of links and advertising and is not compatible with this site. DO NOT USE THE META CAFE EMBED CODE! Use only the URL from your browser while visiting the page where the video can be viewed while on Meta Cafe's website also known as the area circled in green below:
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How to Embed Hulu Videos by Extracting URLs from Embed Code

VideoLessons — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:05:49 -08:00

Hulu videos can be a bit tricky to embed compared to content from typical streaming media sites. This is because the uniform resource locator (URL) visible in your browser cannot be used to determine the source URL due to the fact that Hulu source URL's are encrypted in their embed code. To emebed Hulu videos you must manually extract the source URL from the embed code provided by Hulu before you copy and paste it into the video url text box when making or editing a post. You can find source URL's by clicking on the "embed" icon while watching a Hulu video and then extracting the part of the code circled in green below. If a video is flagged by Hulu as mature then you must sign up for a Hulu membership before you can view of find the embed code from that video.
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How to Embed Videos from Funny or Die on No Limit List

VideoLessons — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:58:51 -08:00

Funny or Die videos are easy to embed. Just copy and paste the uniform resource locator (URL) from your browser into the video URL text box when creating or editing any No Limit List post. DO NOT USE THE FUNNY OR DIE EMBED CODE! Instead just copy and paste the URL from your browser and our code will do the rest. The URL location is circled in green in the image on this page.
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How to Embed Daily Motion Videos on No Limit List

VideoLessons — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:36:10 -08:00

Embedding videos from DailyMotion.com used to be a little tricky at times, but now that they have stopped stuffing the URLs of landing pages for individual videos you won't find a bunch of irrelevant querystrings in the URLs anymore. Now all you have to do is copy the permalink URL from your browser before pasting it into the video URL textbox on any form used to post an ad or article on No Limit List. Watch Out for Hash # Symbols! Sometime you might have a hash # symbol in your Daily Motion URL that will cause a false positive for URL validation controls on sites in the No Limit List network. This should not happen on No Limit List itself, but older sites might have a problem. For instance this video URL http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhr1zs_borat-proposes-to-pamela_shortfilms#rel-page-1 could cause an embedding problem, so you should remove the "#rel-page-1" part of it and try again. DO NOT USE DAILY MOTION'S EMBED CODE! Daily Motion embed code contains HTML code not allowed by No Limit List or its partner websites as part of a spam prevention measure. As a result you must use the permalink URL when adding videos to this site. UPDATE: Unfortunately this method does not work on videos if they don't normally have a shared option on Daily Motion. Hopefully a word around can be found soon.
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