# Adding a youtube video column type

**URL:** <https://community.tulip.co/t/adding-a-youtube-video-column-type/724>\
**Category:** Product Suggestions\
**Created:** [September 30, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/adding-a-youtube-video-column-type/724 "2020-09-30T21:10:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![CPS\_Chris\_Winters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CPS\_Chris\_Winters](https://community.tulip.co/u/CPS_Chris_Winters)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/adding-a-youtube-video-column-type/724/1 "2020-09-30T21:10:16Z")

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Howdy party people!,  
in tulip tables could you create a youtube video column type and add variable to the youtube widget function?. then you could dynamically load youtube videos into an apop as parameters and the app evolve  
That would be super cool!  
Stay awesome,

Chris Winters

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**Author:** ![gio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/gio/32/82_2.png) [@gio](https://community.tulip.co/u/gio)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/adding-a-youtube-video-column-type/724/2 "2020-09-30T21:33:00Z")

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Hello @CPS_Chris_Winters,

Thanks for sharing, this is a great suggestion!!

We are in the process of adding support for additional file types to Tables, including one for videos (that will work in a similar way to images).

Would uploading videos this way work for you or do you need to reference YouTube videos directly??

Thanks again for providing the feedback!!

Best,

Gio

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**Author:** ![gio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/gio/32/82_2.png) [@gio](https://community.tulip.co/u/gio)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 7:11am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/adding-a-youtube-video-column-type/724/3 "2020-10-01T07:11:05Z")

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Hey @CPS_Chris_Winters,

A suggestion that a colleague of our just shared that would work well is to simply store the URL as a text field and using the action **Open Link** to open the video in a browser:

 ![Screen Shot](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/1X/7c83500f2e4e748ffae63e6312042664d5fcd03a.jpeg)

Let me know your thoughts on this!!

Thanks,

Gio