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 computer, 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, copy the HTML code.
  5. Paste the code into your website HTML.
  6. For network administrators: You will need to add youtube.com to the firewall allowlist.
  7. Important: If your website or app is kid directed and you embed YouTube content, yous must self designate your site or app using these tools. This self designation volition ensure Google does not 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 most 3rd party websites. These videos will redirect viewers back to YouTube when played.

Manage video embedding options

Plow on privacy-enhanced mode

The Privacy Enhanced Way of the YouTube embedded player prevents the employ of views of embedded YouTube content from influencing the viewer'south browsing experience on YouTube. This means that the view of a video shown in the Privacy Enhanced Mode of the embedded role player will not exist used to personalize the YouTube browsing experience, either inside your Privacy Enhanced Mode embedded actor or in the viewer's subsequent YouTube viewing experience.

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

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

To employ Privacy Enhanced Mode:

  1. Change 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 need to add together youtube-nocookie.com to the firewall allowlist.
  3. For use in applications, use a WebView instance of the embedded player. Privacy Enhanced Mode is bachelor only for embedded players on websites.
  4. Important: If your website or app is child directed, yous must self designate your site or app using these tools, as required by the YouTube API Terms of Service and Developer Policies, even if you embed YouTube videos with the Privacy Enhanced Mode player.

Example:

Before

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

src="https://world wide web.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" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Annotation: If the viewer clicks or taps out of the embed and is redirected to another website or app, that website or app may track the viewer's behavior as per that website's or app's policies and terms.

Make an embedded video play automatically

To make an embedded video autoplay, add "&autoplay=i" to the video's embed code right later the video ID (the serial of letters that follows "embed/").

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

Example: 

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

Start an embedded video at a certain fourth dimension

To have a video showtime playing from a specific point, add together "?start=" to a video's embed code, followed past the time in seconds at which you'd similar the video to begin playing.

For example, if yous want a video to beginning at 1 minute and thirty seconds into the video, your embed code would expect something like this:

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://world wide web.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 adding "&cc_load_policy=1" to the video's embed code.

Y'all tin can also choose a caption linguistic communication for the embedded video. To specify the explanation linguistic communication for the video that you'd like to embed, merely add "&cc_lang_pref=fr&cc_load_policy=1" to the video's embed lawmaking.

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

Turn off embedding for your videos

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

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left bill of fare, select Content.
  3. Next to the video you lot'd like to manage, select Details .
  4. From the top, select SHOW MORE.
  5. Uncheck the box next to "Allow embedding" and SAVE.

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