I have been scouring through the source code of a random YouTube video trying to find the Element ID of the play button. I am making a program in VB.NET where the WebBrowser would navigate to a YouTube video, but I soon found out that the video dosen't start automatically if you are using VB.NET. I am trying to find the element ID so I can invoke a click event to start it. I would be very happy for any hints or tips on this.
Thanks so much!
Youtube uses flash for their video player, so in short, the "play button" does not exist. Check out the youtube api for more info
If you comb through the youtube api, there is a really good chance you will find an autoplay capability.
Good Luck,
-Brian
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When something is shared from youtube to facebook, facebook is now showing the youtube html5 player.
If you look up one of their urls (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuS5ZyQhvsk) in the open graph debugger you can see that they are now providing open graph meta data for their html player as well as the flash one.
I also have a player that sits in an iframe, and am now including the same tags that youtube is, minus the flash ones as we don't have a flash player, but it isn't working and facebook is giving me this error which doesn't make sense:
Share has playable media but will not play inline because it would cause a mixed content warning if embedded. Add a secure_src or make the video src secure to fix this.
This is the information facebook is reading:
This is the url as an example that is generating that error: https://www.la1tv.co.uk/player/124/260
All I can think is that Facebook has made some kind of deal with youtube and this isn't available for everyone yet, but that isn't clear from that error.
All of the content on our site is served over https.
Anyone know what's going on or got this working?
I can't find any documentation anywhere on facebook how to do this.
I posted a similar question a while back when I was trying to get this working but at this time youtube was still only providing the flash player to facebook.
It looks like someone else was having a similar issue here.
According to WizKid this is currently in a trial period for YouTube and hopefully will be rolled out to everyone at a future date.
I need to embed a youtube video into my site but I need to allow certain people to be able to change the video that is shown without them going into code, How would I do this?
Another thing that could help is how could I automatically embed someones latest video onto the site.
If anyone can answer any of these thank you.
For adding a YouTube video without going into the code you could look at Google Tag Manager or a similar service. For embedding the latest video you might need to look at a YouTube API or similar to pull in the latest videos url.
When something is shared from youtube to facebook, facebook is now showing the youtube html5 player.
If you look up one of their urls (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuS5ZyQhvsk) in the open graph debugger you can see that they are now providing open graph meta data for their html player as well as the flash one.
I also have a player that sits in an iframe, and am now including the same tags that youtube is, minus the flash ones as we don't have a flash player, but it isn't working and facebook is giving me this error which doesn't make sense:
Share has playable media but will not play inline because it would cause a mixed content warning if embedded. Add a secure_src or make the video src secure to fix this.
This is the information facebook is reading:
This is the url as an example that is generating that error: https://www.la1tv.co.uk/player/124/260
All I can think is that Facebook has made some kind of deal with youtube and this isn't available for everyone yet, but that isn't clear from that error.
All of the content on our site is served over https.
Anyone know what's going on or got this working?
I can't find any documentation anywhere on facebook how to do this.
I posted a similar question a while back when I was trying to get this working but at this time youtube was still only providing the flash player to facebook.
It looks like someone else was having a similar issue here.
According to WizKid this is currently in a trial period for YouTube and hopefully will be rolled out to everyone at a future date.
Is it possible to load only the audio from YouTube into my AS3 flash custom player through youtube AS3 api?
I want to load it into a sound object and then assign it to a sound channel.
I would like to know if there is an "official" way to do this, I'd like to avoid improvising (like loading the whole stream and then use only the audio).
Thank you.
I suggest you read the YouTube terms of service carefully:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms
In particular, you may not "promote separately the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API".
Doing so in any way (such as moving the video off stage) is likely to have your site blocked for playbacks by YouTube for breach of terms of service.
NB: YouTube manages to provide the service it does through advertising on top of video content. Separating the content like this prevents YouTube from making any money from the service it is providing.
If you use it for private usage, its okay I guess.
After some research work with different APIs and libraries and researching source code, I just tried it by myself and wolla.
Just saying, audio only links are in the page source of each video.
You just have to know what you are looking for ;)
Open a youtube video, view page source and search for "mime%3Daudio". There should be 5 matches, full url for example:
"https%3A%2F%2Fr2---sn-35cxanpbo5a-8pxl.googlevideo.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Fsource%3Dyoutube%26signature%3D30EC556F55533FBFD9003767730D10556681F33A.B12E021CA54CCB9E225F58A4430E9BB528081FB5%26requiressl%3Dyes%26expire%3D1527306011%26clen%3D3064602%26initcwndbps%3D1152500%26ipbits%3D0%26mime%3Daudio%252Fmp4%26dur%3D192.911%26fvip%3D5%26lmt%3D1524946334873350%26key%3Dyt6%26sparams%3Dclen%252Cdur%252Cei%252Cgir%252Cid%252Cinitcwndbps%252Cip%252Cipbits%252Citag%252Ckeepalive%252Clmt%252Cmime%252Cmm%252Cmn%252Cms%252Cmv%252Cpl%252Crequiressl%252Csource%252Cexpire%26itag%3D140%26gir%3Dyes%26ip%3D81.217.53.239%26id%3Do-ALNxMeQYw4LLc1FAjxt4h795wKTdqJnzc_SBgzEJVBxR%26c%3DWEB%26keepalive%3Dyes%26mm%3D31%252C29%26mn%3Dsn-35cxanpbo5a-8pxl%252Csn-2gb7sn7r%26ei%3Du4IIW7DfC46rgAfrrpnICw%26ms%3Dau%252Crdu%26mt%3D1527284230%26pl%3D16%26mv%3Dm"
Just decode URL and you got what you want.
I am looking to be able to pause a vimeo video from a separate click event.
here is an example of what i am trying to do.
http://jsfiddle.net/isimpledesign/QsfF7/7/
I am trying to pause the video via the link.
Can anyone set me in the right direction pls.
Update:
Thank you. Squeeks is right, you just need to go over to github get the files, froogaloop.js
sorted
working example here
http://isimplesnippets.com/isimplesnippets/vimeo-api/
this jsfiddle shows playing/pausing vimeo with multiple videos using the froogaloop api. so if you start one video all other videos are stopping to play: http://jsfiddle.net/nerdess/D5fD4/3/
i think that is what you were asking for!
You need to use the froogaloop library in order to interact with the player as you're using the iframe embedding and not the older, flash specific. They have example code on github
and documentation for their API available.