Embed videos & playlists

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

Embed a video or playlist

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

Note:Historic period-restricted videos tin't exist watched on most 3rd party websites. These videos will redirect viewers dorsum to YouTube when played.

Manage video embedding options

Turn on privacy-enhanced fashion

The Privacy Enhanced Manner of the YouTube embedded actor prevents the apply of views of embedded YouTube content from influencing the viewer'southward browsing experience on YouTube. This means that the view of a video shown in the Privacy Enhanced Mode of the embedded actor will non be used to personalize the YouTube browsing feel, either within your Privacy Enhanced Manner embedded player or in the viewer'south subsequent YouTube viewing feel.

If ads are served on a video shown in the Privacy Enhanced Mode of the embedded player, those ads will likewise exist non-personalized. In addition, the view of a video shown in the Privacy Enhanced Way of the embedded player will not exist used to personalize advertizing shown to the viewer outside of your site or app.

Equally a reminder, the YouTube API Terms of Service and Developer Policies apply to the access and use of the YouTube embedded actor.

To use Privacy Enhanced Fashion:

  1. Alter the domain for the embed URL in your HTML from https://world wide web.youtube.com to https://www.youtube-nocookie.com.
  2. For network administrators: You will demand to add youtube-nocookie.com to the firewall allowlist.
  3. For employ in applications, utilize a WebView instance of the embedded thespian. Privacy Enhanced Mode is available only for embedded players on websites.
  4. Important: If your website or app is child directed, you must self designate your site or app using these tools, as required by the YouTube API Terms of Service and Developer Policies, even if y'all embed YouTube videos with the Privacy Enhanced Way player.

Instance:

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" summit="762" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7cjVj1ZyzyE"

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

Note: If the viewer clicks or taps out of the embed and is redirected to another website or app, that website or app may rail the viewer's behavior as per that website'south 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's embed code right after the video ID (the series of messages that follows "embed/").

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

Instance: 

<iframe width="560" summit="315" src="https://world wide web.youtube.com/embed/D6Ac5JpCHmI?&autoplay=1"frameborder="0"  allowfullscreen></iframe>

Start an embedded video at a certain time

To have a video start playing from a specific point, add "?start=" to a video'due south embed code, followed by the time in seconds at which you'd like the video to begin playing.

For case, if you desire a video to beginning at one infinitesimal and thirty seconds into the video, your embed code would look 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'south embed code.

You can also choose a caption language for the embedded video. To specify the explanation language for the video that y'all'd similar to embed, just add "&cc_lang_pref=fr&cc_load_policy=1" 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 lot can expect upwardly 2-letter language codes in the ISO 639-1 standard.

Turn off embedding for your videos

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

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left carte du jour, select Content.
  3. Next to the video you'd like to manage, select Details .
  4. From the tiptop, select SHOW MORE.
  5. Uncheck the box next to "Let embedding" and SAVE.

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