# Instagram reel videos not working with embed component

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**Created:** [November 17, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/instagram-reel-videos-not-working-with-embed-component/54387 "2022-11-17T17:29:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![gvalero](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gvalero/32/1037_2.png) [@gvalero](https://community.glideapps.com/u/gvalero)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/instagram-reel-videos-not-working-with-embed-component/54387/5 "2022-11-22T13:15:09Z")

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Hola!

It works for me when I use this Jeff’s trick

> [@Instagram and glide combined](https://community.glideapps.com/t/instagram-and-glide-combined/50772/6):
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> That has javascript, so it won’t work with a rich text component. However, I did figure out a trick that seems to work. A Add a new text column in your table. Name it “embed” or something like that. Temporarily add a file picker component and point it to that new column. Take that embed code and paste it into notepad or some other basic text editor. Save the file as embed.html or something like that. Use the file picker to upload that html file to the glide database. Now add a web embed co…

Of course, your file (which Web component will use) must have the embed code generated by IG

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/1/e/1ebca49a738c0279f6713a1e470cf01f1467d947.png)

Saludos…

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