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YTPlayerView is YouTube's official iOS Player Helper class which facilitates the playback of YouTube videos in iOS applications.

YTPlayerView (also known as youtube-ios-player-helper) is YouTube's official iOS Player Helper class which facilitates the playback of YouTube videos in iOS applications. Using a YTPlayerView is the only way to integrate a consumer application with YouTube without breaking their Terms of Service.

Use this tag only for questions about integrating with or using the YTPlayerView class on devices.

If you have a general question about YouTube or the YouTube API, use one of the related tags:

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Multiple UIWebView WebCore Crashes

I'm embedding YouTube videos using the power of the YouTube Helper Library. However, we're seeing multiple crashes in production related to WebCore and a couple related to JavaScriptCore. It might be important to note that these crashes are only…
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YouTube-Player-iOS-Helper can't use YTPlayerView class

I am trying to implement the youtube-ios-player-helper, found here: https://github.com/youtube/youtube-ios-player-helper What I did: Edited my podfile, pod update, everything fine without any errors, Alamofire - which was also added via cocoapods…
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Playback restricted on iOS for VEVO videos from YouTube API

I have embedded videos (pulled from YouTube API v3) into my iPhone app using a UIWebView as suggested. The problem is that some videos, such as those from VEVO, produce the following error when attempting to play them on the device. This video…
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Using YTPlayerView to play embedded YouTube video in iOS failed with restriction error

I want play embedded YouTube video in iOS app using YTPlayerView provided at https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/ios_youtube_helper When I tried to play this video with ID = "Ri7-vnrJD3k" (https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ri7-vnrJD3k), I…
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Unable to embed YouTube video with YTPlayerView NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=258

Embedding YouTube videos with YTPlayerView doesn't work. It only gives me this error in the log: 2015-12-12 20:19:45.229 Wax-room[8545:3426005] Received error rendering template: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=258 "The file name is…
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Displaying YouTube Video ads with YouTube iFrame

I'm currently developing an iOS app that displays my YouTube videos, I am a YouTube partner and video ads show up when I play my videos inside my browser. However while using the official iOS YouTube Player it doesn't show any kind of video ads…
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How to Open YouTube app with YouTube id on a button click in iOS

I am building an app in which i will be having a UIButton named Watch Video on clicking the button the YouTube app/web should be opened with the respective youtube ID. I saw code to embed YouTube videos in iOS but i did not find anything of this…
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iOS app with YouTube v3 API and youtube-ios-player-helper can't autoplay videos

I am having a problem autoplaying videos with the youtube-ios-player-helper pod provided by Google/YouTube. Here is the relevant part of my app (iOS 10, Swift 3): a ChannelVideosViewController that displays video thumbnails as UIViews with an…
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Live streaming using YouTube on iOS

I've successfully streamed normal YouTube videos on iOS using the iOS YouTube helper, but live stream does not seem to work. I am not sure whether live streaming is even supported, but I could not find it in their docs. Any idea how to make it work…
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YTPlayerView inside UITableViewCell

I have a YTPlayerView inside of my subclass of UITableViewCell. In my UIViewController I call [cell.youtubeView loadWithVideoId:f.videoID]; from my tableViewDelagate willDisplayCell method. The problem is that when I have many cells in my tableView…
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YTPlayerView Play video in full screen ipad

I am using "YTPlayerView" to play video in iOS. When I am using this in iPhone it automatically play video in full screen but when I am using same thing in the iPad it does not switch to full screen. I also tried the below parameters but no…
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UIWebView to WKWebView on youtube-ios-player-helper-swift

My app uses the framework youtube-is-player-helper-swift, found here: https://github.com/malkouz/youtube-ios-player-helper-swift It is an implementation of the original youtube-ios-player-helper, for Swift. It is working fine, but it is based on…
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YouTube - Download/Play Private Videos

My iOS app is going to have private and public videos, and users can purchase private ones. Right now I'm using YouTube and the youtube-ios-player-helper library for video hosting. Loading a public video is extremely…
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How to stop video playing in YTPlayerView inside UICollectionViewCell when scrolled?

I am using YTPlayerView inside UICollectionView(Horizontal scroll) with one item visible at a time on the screen. I have added a UIView inside custom cell and changed the class name to YTPlayerView in Identity inspector. For YTPlayerView I have…
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IOS 8 - After orientation change, Navigation bar is obscured by the status bar

I'm using SWRevealViewController and my app is locked on portrait orientation. On one of my view controllers I'm launching a youtube player using the YTPlayerView. When displaying the video I switch the orientation to landscape programmatically like…
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