@laurent22 I want to work on this, but it seems to be a plugin that already does this, here is it okay to just integrate it into the codebase?

I saw it but it's not good because it unecessarily introduces non standard markup. Perhaps it can be used as a starting point to generate the html markup.

okay, so you basically want the same functionality replicated, but should generate standard markup(semantic HTML)?

No I mean the input Markdown should be standard. The output HTML I don't mind so much as long as it's reasonably clean.

Their Markdown looks like this:

@[youtube](dQw4w9WgXcQ)

But that's not good as it's not standard and, if the plugin is not enabled, it won't work at all. So our Markdown should look like this:

[youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)

which is standard. It's actually even easier to implement since markdown-it already parses this by default. You'll need to hook into link_open I think.

No I mean the input Markdown should be standard. The output HTML I don't mind so much as long as it's reasonably clean.

Their Markdown looks like this:

@[youtube](dQw4w9WgXcQ)

But that's not good as it's not standard and, if the plugin is not enabled, it won't work at all. So our Markdown should look like this:

[youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)

which is standard. It's actually even easier to implement since markdown-it already parses this by default. You'll need to hook into link_open I think.

okay, I will give this a try

No I mean the input Markdown should be standard. The output HTML I don't mind so much as long as it's reasonably clean.

Their Markdown looks like this:

@[youtube](dQw4w9WgXcQ)

But that's not good as it's not standard and, if the plugin is not enabled, it won't work at all. So our Markdown should look like this:

[youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)

which is standard. It's actually even easier to implement since markdown-it already parses this by default. You'll need to hook into link_open I think.

Do you mean to install the plugin then open the plugin's source code where the link destination is parsed and then only keep the code with accepts the standard format?

Do you mean to install the plugin then open the plugin's source code where the link destination is parsed and then only keep the code with accepts the standard format?

I'm not sure what you mean. You're free to start from that existing plugin if you want. But to be honest the bulk of the work will be in detecting and parsing the YouTube URL and this is not in the existing plugin. Maybe start from scratch with a new plugin, and copy/paste the parts of the other plugin that might be useful (in particular the part to render the YouTube HTML code).

@laurent22 I read the conversation in the @Rishgod 's PR. Can i still work on this issue?

Considering the last PR wasn't merged can I work on this issue? If I can then can you give me any clue how I should approach solving this issue?