Comments on: Making a Custom YouTube Video Player With YouTube’s APIs

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:30:03 +0000

This works fine, but with literally every youtube video I tested it on EXCEPT FOR MY OWN. I have no idea what setting my youtube account might have that is stopping me, the videos allow embedding and they're pubic. What small thing might I be overlooking??

By: Adam Frame

Adam Frame — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:40:48 +0000

Looks and works great for single videos. How do I make it work properly for playlists?

I have added the Flashvar 'playlist' in the js and passed the list of video codes through the youTubeEmbed call and this works, but the play control reappears at the start of each video and the progress meter is not the correct length for the video currently playing.

If you have any pointers on where I should be looking that would be great.

Thanks.

By: mark shirley

mark shirley — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:41:56 +0000

Looks fantastic is there any tutorials that would show how to implement this into wordpress twentyeleven child theme

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:34:41 +0000

If you take this approach you also need to remove the following line of code on like 61

data = data.items[0];

This line grabs the first result in the search results (#0) but since we are no longer doing a search and directly calling the specific video, having this line breaks the player.

By: 123

123 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:47:23 +0000

To make it work with jQuery 1.7.1 all you need to do is just replace 'className' to 'class' in javascript file. :)

By: 123

123 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:18:44 +0000

Current script gets information via search and not directly from video info page. If video id starts with special symbols like '-', youtube API does not return any results.
To solve this issue, information has to be fetched directly from video information page:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/VIDEO_ID?v=2&alt=jsonc
instead of:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&alt=jsonc&q=VIDEO_ID

Updates in youTueEmbed-jquery-1.0.js:
Line 47 changes to
var youtubeAPI = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/' + settings.videoID + '?v=2&alt=jsonc';
Line 53 changes to
if(response.error){

By: Dark

Dark — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:43:16 +0000

It works, but seems not taken styles. I've tried to put in inline, and it works. But it is not the solution. Have you found it?

By: martijn black

martijn black — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:37:33 +0000

The play/stop buttons will not work with 'jquery-1.7.1.min.js', with the older version works fine.

By: LB

LB — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:56:55 +0000

Works great... but still got troubles with urls with "-" before the video id e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lBaGgRTd7I

Could anybody help? :)

By: digitalpbk

digitalpbk — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:40:41 +0000

Does youtube still support custom player?