Generating YouTube Descriptions using Hugo

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Hi,

I recently switched to hugo and am LOVING it! It’s so flexible, easy to use and well documented.

I do some YouTube videos and have corresponding blog posts. I find it super annoying and fiddly to keep the links and the various sections in sync and up to date (e.g. I like to add links to the next video from the previous one when it goes live, but they’re often scheduled).

As a first step to automating some of this, I decided to use hugo to generate the descriptions and it’s working beautifully.

I documented the whole thing here:

and you can find the source for my site here:

My next steps are to set something up to sync the description when it has changed.

Eventually, I will also do an auto-uploader.

I’d welcome any feedback / suggestions / improvements and hope that what I’ve shared is useful!

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As far as I could see, there is no way (currently) in hugo to specify a default output type for a type (i.e. youtube) of content, only a kind (e.g. page) of content.

See https://gohugo.io/configuration/cascade, e.g.:

[[cascade]]
outputs = ['html','plain']
[cascade.target]
kind = 'page'
path = '/youtube/**'

You could also cascade the sitemap and build (you can remove the underscore) parameters. You can cascade from the site config or from content/youtube/_index.md.

I would also base your link render hook on the embedded hook:
https://gohugo.io/render-hooks/links/#default

The logic in that embedded hook is required for multilingual single-host sites and to properly resolve the destination under a number of other conditions.

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Perfect! Thank you so much :smiley:

Those tips really help me streamline and improve the way it all hangs together :smiley: