This works in Chrome but not Firefox 3.6 (warning: RickRoll video): The JavaScript API for iframe embeds exists, but is still posted as an experimental feature. UPDATE: The iframe API is now fully supported and “Creating YT.Player objects – Example 2” shows how to set “autoplay” in JavaScript.
TL;DR: you’ll have to use official Google Youtube API Unfortunately it’s impossible to use the same “easy” approach, like the one that you use with a iframe embedded Youtube. To be able to customize the look of the playlist you need to do a few preparation steps: Create a google developer account to receive the needful API. Create … Read more
I believe this is an issue with the target origin being https. I suspect it is because your iFrame url is using http instead of https. Try changing the url of the file you are trying to embed to be https. For instance: to be:
Each YouTube video has four generated images. They are predictably formatted as follows: The first one in the list is a full size image and others are thumbnail images. The default thumbnail image (i.e., one of 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg) is: For the high quality version of the thumbnail use a URL similar to this: There is also a … Read more
You can use YouTube Data API to retrieve video thumbnails, caption, description, rating, statistics and more. With the YouTube Data API, you can add a variety of YouTube features to your application. For the high quality version of the thumbnail use a url similar to this: There is also a medium quality version of the … Read more
UPDATE 2: YouTube has unfortunately dropped support for this method. Hopefully there will be a new solution in the future without using their API (since it has quote limits). Try this link: https://www.youtube.com/live_stats?v={videoid} Find a Live event on YouTube and replace the video id in the link. This should retrieve the number of concurrent views for that … Read more
Each YouTube video has four generated images. They are predictably formatted as follows: The first one in the list is a full size image and others are thumbnail images. The default thumbnail image (i.e., one of 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg) is: For the high quality version of the thumbnail use a URL similar to this: There is also a … Read more
There appears to be no way to do this, however there are ways to approximate what you’re looking for. See here for ideas. The basic ideas from those pages are to use the most recent uploads feed (if you don’t care about when something was uploaded) or simply get a dump of ALL youtube videos … Read more