I am creating a web site where users submit their (raw) youtube links and the system should automatically embed them. However, I cannot embed the youtube videos unless I get the special embed link given by youtube. How can I manage to embed any youtube link provided to the system ? Any suggestions ?
Can't you just drop this in, and update video_id as need be?
<iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID" frameborder="0">
</iframe>
Cenmre, I have the perfect solution for you.
YouTube supports oEmbed, which lets you send it any URL, and get back the appropriate embed code.
Read more about the standard, and how YouTube supports it.
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Is it possible to embed video into an email that will allow the viewer to watch the video within the email itself?
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wbY_Szw8X7Q" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>
When I use above iframe code in my email template instead of the video it showing blank.
The answer, unfortunately, is that it's not possible. You need to:
Provide a link to the video source (in your case https://www.youtube.com/embed/wbY_Szw8X7Q)
Attach this file as an mp4 to the email itself.
It depends on the E-mail provider. Each provider supports different "HTML E-mails". Some support iframes, others don't. I would encourage you to Google which E-mail providers support iframes, and which don't.
Some pointers:
https://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/email-marketing/2010/08/do-iframes-work-in-email/
https://www.simplycast.com/interactive-marketing-support/faqs/are-iframes-compatible-with-emails/
https://mailchimp.com/help/limitations-of-html-email/
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21773969/IFRAME-in-a-mail-possible.html
Etc...
You must not embed a video because it is not supported by major email clients. You may however show a thumbnail image, with a link. Once they click on on the thumbnail "play button", it redirects to the link URL, and plays the video, in a browser.
The html box embed feature on google sites is great. Google provides a good example of how to build a 3-slide carousel with text or logos for content. However, I'm struggling with how to add youtube videos to the content.
I've tried putting this in the content section:
iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ski_4N0dfFI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>/iframe
but google sites complains that the src tag is not allowed here. I suspect this is some sort of security restriction.
Just try.
<object data="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ski_4N0dfFI">
Cannot load video.
</object>
Or
<embed src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ski_4N0dfFI">
the best practice to post youtube videos on website is through using iframes or embed tag
<iframe width="420" height="345"
src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XGSy3_Czz8k">
</iframe>
or
<embed
width="420" height="345"
src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XGSy3_Czz8k"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
</embed>
my question is which is best practice for posting videos on site......
and what are effects on performance using both of them....
The new style is the <iframe>. For more information look here with this notification:
Please keep in mind, the mobile player cannot be embedded on external mobile sites.
I think it is always safe to use embed tags. Use of iframe in websites is a source of vulnerabilities. iFrames opens up window for hackers. For embed tag, there is no major security issues being reported.
Embed tag is much more effective, as we can handle different situation more effectively, like is player not supported etc...
Consider the following embed code of this video from Vimeo - Popular video hosting site:
<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/41321504?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=c8c8c8" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>
the video embed url(http://player.vimeo.com/video/41321504) does open, if open directly in new browser window but doesn't contain location of video anywhere in html source code, thereby preventing downloads,i guess this is a feature of flash DRM. But then, a third-party website comes in & was able to give the direct urls to same video
http://av.vimeo.com/42007/964/95995392.mp4?aksessionid=96d0b8ffbb4c0c04b1c6b7f1562de7d5&token=1343971749_85ce464ec3361604fbda75e38e29f4e8
From a programmers standpoint, i was wondering how does it work? how are these video downloaders able to fetch direct url of the videos which are not even present in html source? what is their process if anyone can explain that step-by-step.
They do server-side analysis of the flash object, which will establish a conection to download the video. That connection can easily be captured. That even works in a browser, with Firebug for example:
I have been looking for a way of embedding youtube videos into my site. The website is made of html and the youtube videos should auto-update as I would like to display all the videos on the current account? I know theres ways of embedding one video or playlists but Im not quite sure how to go about embedding everything on a users channel? Any Tips?
Just use the following as the src of an iframe:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/?listType=user_uploads&list=*USERNAME*
For example:
<iframe id="ytplayer" width="640" height="360"
src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/?listType=user_uploads&list=apple"
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>
You can get info on the parammeters of the player on this link: https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#Manual_IFrame_Embeds
Scroll a little and you will see the url for user videos.