Embed videos & playlists

You can add a YouTube video or playlist to a website or blog by embedding it.

Embed a video or playlist

  1. On a reckoner, go to the YouTube video or playlist yous want to embed.
  2. Click SHARE Share.
  3. From the list of Share options, click Embed.
  4. From the box that appears, copy the HTML lawmaking.
  5. Paste the code into your website HTML.
  6. For network administrators: You volition demand to add youtube.com to the firewall allowlist.
  7. Of import: If your website or app is child directed and yous embed YouTube content, you lot must self designate your site or app using these tools. This cocky designation will ensure Google does non serve personalized ads on these sites or apps and some features will be disabled in the embedded player.

Annotation:Age-restricted videos can't exist watched on about tertiary party websites. These videos volition redirect viewers dorsum to YouTube when played.

Manage video embedding options

Turn on privacy-enhanced mode

The Privacy Enhanced Way of the YouTube embedded player prevents the utilise of views of embedded YouTube content from influencing the viewer's browsing experience on YouTube. This means that the view of a video shown in the Privacy Enhanced Mode of the embedded role player will non exist used to personalize the YouTube browsing experience, either within your Privacy Enhanced Style embedded player or in the viewer's subsequent YouTube viewing feel.

If ads are served on a video shown in the Privacy Enhanced Mode of the embedded thespian, those ads volition too be non-personalized. In addition, the view of a video shown in the Privacy Enhanced Mode of the embedded histrion will not be used to personalize advertizement shown to the viewer outside of your site or app.

As a reminder, the YouTube API Terms of Service and Developer Policies apply to the access and utilise of the YouTube embedded player.

To use Privacy Enhanced Mode:

  1. Change the domain for the embed URL in your HTML from https://www.youtube.com to https://www.youtube-nocookie.com.
  2. For network administrators: Yous will demand to add youtube-nocookie.com to the firewall allowlist.
  3. For use in applications, use a WebView instance of the embedded role player. Privacy Enhanced Style is available simply for embedded players on websites.
  4. Important: If your website or app is kid directed, you must self designate your site or app using these tools, as required by the YouTube API Terms of Service and Programmer Policies, even if you embed YouTube videos with the Privacy Enhanced Mode histrion.

Example:

Before

<iframe width="1440" height="762"

src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7cjVj1ZyzyE"

frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>

After

<iframe width="1440" height="762" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7cjVj1ZyzyE"

frameborder="0" let="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Note: If the viewer clicks or taps out of the embed and is redirected to some other website or app, that website or app may rails the viewer's beliefs as per that website's or app's policies and terms.

Make an embedded video play automatically

To make an embedded video autoplay, add together "&autoplay=1" to the video'south embed code right afterward the video ID (the series of letters that follows "embed/").

Embedded videos that are autoplayed don't increment video views.

Example: 

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/D6Ac5JpCHmI?&autoplay=i"frameborder="0"  allowfullscreen></iframe>

Start an embedded video at a sure time

To take a video start playing from a specific betoken, add "?starting time=" to a video's embed code, followed by the fourth dimension in seconds at which you'd like the video to begin playing.

For example, if you want a video to start at i infinitesimal and thirty seconds into the video, your embed code would expect something like this:

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UkWd0azv3fQ?star                                          t=90                    " width="420"></iframe>

Add captions to an embedded video

Make captions automatically appear for an embedded video by calculation "&cc_load_policy=1" to the video's embed code.

You can also choose a explanation language for the embedded video. To specify the caption language for the video that yous'd like to embed, just add "&cc_lang_pref=fr&cc_load_policy=ane" to the video's embed code.

  • "cc_lang_pref" sets the language for the captions shown in the video.
  • "cc_load_policy=1" turns captions on by default.
  • "fr" represents the language code for French. You tin expect up 2-letter language codes in the ISO 639-1 standard.

Plow off embedding for your videos

If you've uploaded a video and don't want to let others to embed your video on external sites, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left menu, select Content.
  3. Next to the video you'd similar to manage, select Details .
  4. From the top, select SHOW MORE.
  5. Uncheck the box next to "Allow embedding" and Salve.

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