By trickyricky26 on

I am migrating a wordpress blog with thousands of posts to drupal. Everything imported smoothly except the youtube videos. Its just showing text like this:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EaI0U1_IW4]

Is there a way to automatically change this to the embed code? The video input format is no help because the syntax is [video:url] not [youtube:url]

HELP!!!

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vm commented

you would have to do a manual replacement in the database which woudl be difficult I'd think or creating your own filter that mimics what the "youtube" bbcode did may be of benefit.

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trickyricky26 commented

Would adding a new tag in the bbcode module work?

thanks for response!

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vm commented

don't know. never tried to do it. It would likely require a but more than the tag itself as the tag is what calls the embed code and then inserts the needed part of the url for the video.

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vm commented

it just dawned on me to use the video module as you already tried.

then do a search and replace to replace the tags.

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trickyricky26 commented

search and replace in the template.php?

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vm commented

no. On the node revisions table in the database where the content is physically stored.

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trickyricky26 commented

oops sorry i just used the module search and replace scanner and it WORKS! thanks so much for your idea saved me tons of time. i owe ya a coke!