Youtube application launch from other app is not working in ios 9

Question

  if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VideoID"]]) {

        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VideoID"]];
    }

Output : -canOpenURL: failed for URL: "youtube://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFccvtrP1d8" - error: "This app is not allowed to query for scheme youtube"

Why do you want to check for `canOpenURL`? Just open the url. — luk2302, Jan 23 '16 at 12:07
I need to open only in youtube app.Could You help on this? I want to do other cases on else part — Ramkumar Paulraj, Jan 23 '16 at 12:09
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30987986/ios-9-not-opening-instagram-app-with-url-scheme you basically have to whitelist the youtube scheme — luk2302, Jan 23 '16 at 12:17
what i want to add on LSApplicationQueriesSchemes for Youtube, That is my real problem now — Ramkumar Paulraj, Jan 23 '16 at 12:23

Anbu.Karthik · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-23T12:43:52.710

try this

In iOS 9 you must whitelist any URL schemes your App wants to query in Info.plist under the LSApplicationQueriesSchemes key (an array of strings):

add string as youtube

for example

<key>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes</key>
<array>
 <string>youtube</string>
   </array>

secondary check that the youtube app is available or not in your device

for example

 NSString *Name = @"VideoID";

NSURL *linkToApp = [NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"youtube://watch?v=%@",Name]]; // I dont know excatly this one 
NSURL *linkToWeb = [NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%@",Name]]; // this is correct


if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:linkToApp]) {
    // Can open the youtube app URL so launch the youTube app with this URL
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:linkToApp];
}
else{
    // Can't open the youtube app URL so launch Safari instead
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:linkToWeb];
}

for more information about play Youtube Video

Monza · Answer 2 · 2023-02-03T21:07:23.810

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Nowadays (xCode 14.2) you will need to add "Queried URL Schemes" with "youtube" as one of its items on info.plist.

edited Feb 03 '23 at 21:07

answered Feb 03 '23 at 03:47

Monza

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