Developer changelog
Subscribe to the changelog to stay up to date on recent changes to Shopify’s APIs and other developer products, as well as preview upcoming features and beta releases.
The external_video Liquid object now supports YouTube and Vimeo videos
Themes
Effective February 24, 2021
Shopify now supports adding embedded Vimeo videos to products, leveraging the external_video object.
Many ExternalVideo API implementations assume that all external video objects represent YouTube videos. To avoid any complications arising from this change, version 2021-01 and earlier of our APIs don't return ExternalVideo objects that represent Vimeo videos.
You can access Vimeo videos using the unstable version of our APIs. We will also be introducing the ability to detect the video host in 2021-04.
Learn more about Liquid media filters and the external_video object on Shopify.dev.