Can YouTube videos be integrated into GitHub wiki documentation?

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I’m new to markup and working on a package wiki. I want to make the help manual look good. I can add YouTube links easily but I’m wondering if it’s possible to actually embed the videos in the wiki pages.

I tried using HTML tags like this:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/exampleID" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

But when I saved the page nothing showed up.

Is there a way to embed YouTube videos in GitHub wiki pages? If so how do you do it? I’m not sure if GitHub supports this feature or if there’s a special trick to make it work. Any help would be great!

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I’ve run into this issue before and found that GitHub wikis don’t allow embedded iframes or direct video playback. In my experience, the best workaround was to display a thumbnail image that links out to the YouTube video. You can upload a suitable thumbnail to your repository and then insert it using markdown. For example, writing something like:

Video Title

provides a clickable image. It may not offer in-page playback, but it keeps the wiki both clean and functional.