Just displaying a link for youtube videos in my RSS feeds wasn’t good enough for me. Therefore I also added a fallback image, which tries to get the poster image of the video and displays it inside the link as well.

Let’s see how that looks like:

📺 Youtube video

I’ve noticed that youtube videos in my notes are not displayed in my RSS reader, not even as a link. This is because I didn’t provide a fallback inside the <lite-youtube> web component I’m using to render youtube videos with performance and privacy in mind.

I’ve now added a link inside the web component, that should be rendered in RSS readers as a fallback. Here is a test, that should render a link in RSS readers:

📺 Youtube video