Embed videos & playlists

You can add together 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 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 lawmaking 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, you must self designate your site or app using these tools. This self designation will ensure Google does not serve personalized ads on these sites or apps and some features will be disabled in the embedded player.

Note:Age-restricted videos can't exist watched on virtually 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 Mode of the YouTube embedded player prevents the apply of views of embedded YouTube content from influencing the viewer's browsing experience on YouTube. This ways that the view of a video shown in the Privacy Enhanced Mode of the embedded thespian will not be used to personalize the YouTube browsing feel, either within your Privacy Enhanced Mode embedded player or in the viewer's subsequent YouTube viewing experience.

If ads are served on a video shown in the Privacy Enhanced Mode of the embedded actor, those ads will besides be not-personalized. In addition, the view of a video shown in the Privacy Enhanced Mode of the embedded player will non be used to personalize advertising shown to the viewer exterior of your site or app.

As a reminder, the YouTube API Terms of Service and Developer Policies apply to the access and apply 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: Y'all will need to add youtube-nocookie.com to the firewall allowlist.
  3. For use in applications, use a WebView example of the embedded player. Privacy Enhanced Mode 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 yous embed YouTube videos with the Privacy Enhanced Manner player.

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

Notation: If the viewer clicks or taps out of the embed and is redirected to some other 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 together "&autoplay=1" to the video'southward embed code right later the video ID (the series of letters that follows "embed/").

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

Instance: 

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

Offset an embedded video at a certain time

To take a video showtime playing from a specific signal, add "?start=" to a video's embed lawmaking, followed by the time in seconds at which y'all'd similar the video to begin playing.

For example, if you want a video to get-go at 1 minute and 30 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=ninety                    " width="420"></iframe>

Add captions to an embedded video

Make captions automatically appear for an embedded video past adding "&cc_load_policy=i" to the video'south embed code.

You can besides choose a caption language for the embedded video. To specify the caption language for the video that y'all'd like to embed, just add together "&cc_lang_pref=fr&cc_load_policy=1" to the video'south embed lawmaking.

  • "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 lawmaking for French. Yous can look up 2-letter of the alphabet language codes in the ISO 639-1 standard.

Turn off embedding for your videos

If yous'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 menu, select Content.
  3. Adjacent to the video you'd like to manage, select Details .
  4. From the top, select Evidence More.
  5. Uncheck the box side by side to "Allow embedding" and Salve.

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