JO Auto Video Article is a lightweight Joomla system plugin that automatically publishes new videos from your YouTube channels or playlists as Joomla articles — with responsive video embeds, automatic thumbnails, and no YouTube API key required.
Simply add one or more YouTube channel, playlist, or video URLs, select a target category and author, and let the plugin handle the rest. It checks your sources automatically at the interval you choose, skips videos that have already been imported, and creates properly formatted Joomla articles for new videos.
The plugin runs automatically during normal frontend page visits, so there is no cron job to configure and nothing extra to install. Built-in duplicate protection prevents the same video from being imported more than once, even when multiple visitors trigger the import process at the same time.
Whether you run a fashion brand's video blog, a YouTube-focused content site, or simply want to mirror your channel uploads as Joomla articles, JO Auto Video Article makes the entire process hands-free.
Key Features:
- ★ No YouTube API key required — uses public YouTube RSS feeds, with no API setup or external service required
- ★ No cron job required — automatically checks your sources during normal frontend page visits at your chosen interval
- ★ Multiple video sources — add any number of YouTube channels, playlists, or individual video URLs, one per line
- ★ Automatic importing — checks all configured sources and imports new videos automatically
- ★ Full article control — choose the target category, article author, and default article state: Published, Unpublished, or Trashed
- ★ YouTube description support — optionally include the video's YouTube description in the Joomla article body
- ★ Responsive video embeds — generates fully responsive 16:9 YouTube embeds that adapt to any screen size
- ★ Global video width control — set a maximum video width that applies automatically to both existing and newly created articles
- ★ Related video control — optionally restrict YouTube's related-video suggestions to videos from the same channel
- ★ Automatic thumbnails — optionally use the YouTube thumbnail as the article's Intro Image, Full Article Image, or both
- ★ Duplicate-safe — tracks imported videos so the same video is never published twice
- ★ Concurrent import protection — built-in locking helps prevent duplicate imports when multiple visitors trigger the process simultaneously
- ★ Joomla workflow support — automatically handles Joomla's publishing and workflow requirements so imported articles appear correctly in Content → Articles
- ★ Debug logging — optional Debug Mode records feed fetches, skipped duplicates, created articles, and other processing details
- ★ Easy testing — a dedicated Reset function lets you safely re-test imports on development or staging sites
- ★ Joomla 5 & 6 compatible — built for modern Joomla versions using Joomla's standard article and publishing APIs
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