# Play a youtube video from plex **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [April 1, 2021, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/play-a-youtube-video-from-plex/706320 "2021-04-01T20:12:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![xzoursx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/7ab992/32.png) [@xzoursx](https://forums.plex.tv/u/xzoursx)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/play-a-youtube-video-from-plex/706320/1 "2021-04-01T20:12:19Z")
From a movie info sheet and without using the plex pass, I would like to be able to read youtube videos from plex (for example trailers). do you have any ideas ? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/play-a-youtube-video-from-plex/706320/2 "2021-04-01T20:41:04Z")
You might want to be a bit more specific as for what you want to achieve… is this only about using online trailers from Youtube? From what I remember, Plex had already commented they cannot offer that for licensing reasons (or the lack of clarity who actually owns the content running through Youtube). There’s an existing feature suggestion to include Youtube shows into the Web Shows feature. > [@Feature Request - "Add Manual Show" in Web Shows (Youtube, Vimeo, Etc..)](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-add-manual-show-in-web-shows-youtube-vimeo-etc/594725): > > Hi, I would like to request a feature. The ability to add a channel using let’s say YouTube [PBS Eons](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzR-rom72PHN9Zg7RML9EbA) and the whole playlist would then shows up in Web Shows as a “Show”. It would broaden the ability to follow contents that aren’t currently a “Show” in Web Shows. As long as the link is active the contents would get update automatically. It would allow users to bridge the gap between using multiple apps and make Plex that much closer to a one stop shop. I think it is pretty simple and straight f… # If it’s a more generic “let’s play Youtube content through Plex” – Plex has discontinued the support for content channels/plugins some years ago ---
**Author:** ![xzoursx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/7ab992/32.png) [@xzoursx](https://forums.plex.tv/u/xzoursx)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 9:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/play-a-youtube-video-from-plex/706320/3 "2021-04-01T21:05:38Z")
Thank you for your quick feedback. Indeed it’s a little complicated to explain by text. My idea was from a movie info sheet, to be able to launch the trailer which behind is a Youtube video. Before I was using this feature (September 2020) but since the plugin is not updated and does not work anymore (Youtube API change?) [GitHub - kolsys/YouTubeTV.bundle: Plex YouTube video plugin](https://github.com/kolsys/YouTubeTV.bundle) Otherwise, I’m going to host my videos that I’ll get from Youtube but is there a plugin for that? ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 11:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/play-a-youtube-video-from-plex/706320/4 "2021-04-01T23:49:04Z")
No, there’s no more plugins to play media from other sources. > [@tom80H](#): > > Plex has discontinued the support for content channels/plugins some years ago ---
**Author:** ![xzoursx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/7ab992/32.png) [@xzoursx](https://forums.plex.tv/u/xzoursx)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 7:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/play-a-youtube-video-from-plex/706320/5 "2021-04-02T07:01:00Z")
Ok thanks for the info. But is it possible to host the trailers locally to play them? However, is there any software or script to download and associate the trailers to the videos (for example: [GitHub - airship-david/Trailer-Downloader: Simple set of python scripts for downloading a movie trailer from Apple or from YouTube with help from TMDB.](https://github.com/airship-david/Trailer-Downloader)) but maybe there is another one more recent? ---
**Author:** ![CostaHT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/costaht/32/193414_2.png) [@CostaHT](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CostaHT)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 7:12am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/play-a-youtube-video-from-plex/706320/6 "2021-04-02T07:12:20Z")
> **[Local Files for Trailers and Extras | Plex Support](https://support.plex.tv/articles/local-files-for-trailers-and-extras/)** > > The scanners and metadata agents used by Plex will work best when your major types of content are separated from... ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/play-a-youtube-video-from-plex/706320/7 "2021-04-02T15:00:21Z")
Closing this thread, considering it implemented. - you can use automatically linked online trailers (requires Plex Pass) - you can add trailers as local extras (see link posted by CostaHT) ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/play-a-youtube-video-from-plex/706320/8 "2021-04-02T15:00:25Z")