How to embed a Youtube video into my app?

Question

I'm trying to create a video player for my Swift app, but I keep getting the error of 'unresolved identifier AVPlayerViewController'. What am I missing?

I'm a beginner at this, I may have to ask a few thousand times in layman's terms. I've been scouring the internet for perhaps a day now for a video for how to embed a Youtube video into my app, with no results. If you could point me over to a tutorial that would be awesome!

Thanks!

Answer 1

Xcode 8.2 • Swift 3.0.2

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    @IBOutlet weak var wv: UIWebView!
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        loadYoutube(videoID: "oCm_lnoVf08")
    }
    func loadYoutube(videoID:String) {
        guard
            let youtubeURL = URL(string: "https://www.youtube.com/embed/\(videoID)")
            else { return }
        wv.loadRequest( URLRequest(url: youtubeURL) )
    }
}

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Xcode 7.3.1 • Swift 2.x

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    // create an outlet for your webview 
    @IBOutlet weak var wv: UIWebView!
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // load your you tube video ID
        loadYoutube(videoID: "oCm_lnoVf08")
    }
    func loadYoutube(videoID videoID:String) {
        // create a custom youtubeURL with the video ID
        guard
            let youtubeURL = NSURL(string: "https://www.youtube.com/embed/\(videoID)")
            else { return }
        // load your web request
        wv.loadRequest( NSURLRequest(URL: youtubeURL) )
    }
}

Answer 2

Swift 3/4

You can play youtube video in AVPlayer with the help of XCDYouTubeKit.

Add

pod 'XCDYouTubeKit'

into your project and write a code as below

func playVideo() {

        let playerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()
        self.present(playerViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)

        XCDYouTubeClient.default().getVideoWithIdentifier("KHIJmehK5OA") { (video: XCDYouTubeVideo?, error: Error?) in
            if let streamURL = video?.streamURLs[XCDYouTubeVideoQuality.HD720.rawValue] {
                playerViewController.player = AVPlayer(url: streamURL)
            } else {
                self.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
            }
        }
    }

you can change the quality of video by replacing XCDYouTubeVideoQuality.HD720.rawValue with medium360 or with Small240

Answer 3

Use YouTube-Player-iOS-Helper:

Step 1: add pod "youtube-ios-player-helper", "~> x.y.z" to your Podfile, replace "x.y.z" with the latest version. and run pod install.

Step 2: Implement this code:

import UIKit
import youtube_ios_player_helper
 
class ViewController: UIViewController, YTPlayerViewDelegate {
    @IBOutlet weak var playerView: YTPlayerView!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        playerView.delegate = self

        let playerVars = ["playsinline": 1] // 0: will play video in fullscreen
        self.playerView.loadWithVideoId("youtubeId", playerVars: playerVars)
    }     
}

Note: Set the rel key to 0 in your playerVars dictionary if you don't want to show related video:

let playerVars = ["playsinline":1, "rel" : 0 ]

Answer 4

I did by using below code on Swift 4+ version

guard let url = URL(string: "<Your YuTube url>")
        else{
            return
        }

let safariViewControllerObject = SFSafariViewController(url: url)
self.present(safariViewControllerObject, animated: true, completion: nil)

Note:- I have imported SafariServices lib

Answer 5

Swift 4 for iOS12 you should import "WebKit" module

Make an outlet for WKWebView. Use following function, which you should call in viewDidLoad():

func getVideo(videoCode: String) {
    let url = URL(string: "https://www.youtube.com/embed/\(videoCode)")
    myWKWebView.load(URLRequest(url: url!))
}

For an argument videoCode in function getVideo, you should use the videoID, I will make it bulk on the example link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI3pz7eFgfo&t=838s

Answer 6

Play youtube video in Swift 4.1

Add Pod pod 'XCDYouTubeKit'

import XCDYouTubeKit in ViewController

func playYoutubeVideo(){

    let strUrl = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m_K2Yg7wGQ"
    if let range = strUrl.range(of: "=") {
            let strIdentifier = strUrl.substring(from: range.upperBound)
            print("Identifier:\(strIdentifier)")
            let videoPlayerViewController = 
            XCDYouTubeVideoPlayerViewController(videoIdentifier: strIdentifier)
            videoPlayerViewController.present(in: viewYTVideo)
            videoPlayerViewController.moviePlayer.play()
        }
}

Answer 7

import WebKit
import SnapKit

class YoutubeVideoView: UIView {
    
    private lazy var webConfig: WKWebViewConfiguration = {
        $0.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = true
        return $0
    }(WKWebViewConfiguration())
    
    private lazy var webView: WKWebView = {
        $0.scrollView.isScrollEnabled = false
        return $0
    }(WKWebView(frame: .zero, configuration: webConfig))

    private var url: String
    
    init(url: String) {
        self.url = url
        super.init(frame: .zero)
        configureViews()
    }
    
    required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }
    
    private func configureViews() {
        addSubview(webView)
        webView.snp.makeConstraints({ $0.edges.equalToSuperview() })
    }
    
    func play() {
        guard let url = URL(string: url) else { return }
        webView.load(.init(url: url))
    }
}