Auto Tube Review

It slices... it dices... it... automatically creates articles on your Joomla! website from a YouTube channel?

Meet AutoTube, a Joomla! extension that is able to make any web-specialist's work a lot easier.

Essentially, AutoTube follows a very simple workflow:

1. Install AutoTube
2. Give AutoTube's settings the YouTube Channel you want it to pull videos from
3. AutoTube will make articles using video's titles, description, and it will embed a playable version of the video.

Pretty great, eh? But you were looking for a bit more power than just that. Unfortunately, AutoTube may not have all of the Bells'n'Whistles ®, but it does have some powerful features, I've screen cap'd them for you:

The settings are where the bad news comes in:

• You can only select one channel to load videos from
• You can't add more instances of AutoTube to your Joomla! install
• You can't set AutoTube to load only public, private, or unlisted videos from a channel
• You will need to configure any WYSIWYG editors in Joomla! to not filter HTML while editing

But why should these cons matter? It's free, right?

Oh, by the way, it costs $44, and that's on sale. 

For a professional in the web field using Joomla!, anything that saves as much time as AutoTube does is probably worth shelling out the $44 to buy it. 

AutoTube's developer has also responded to all of my emails within a day, which is also a good sign when looking to buy a long-lasting extension. 

While this extension could be better, it does a fantastic job at getting content from YouTube on to your website, which saves a lot of time for multimedia organizations. Due to its ease of use, but lack of powerful features, AutoTube gets 4/5 cats: