YouTube oEmbed

www.youtube.com

YouTube offers a platform to watch and share videos, including music and original content. Developers can embed various content types such as videos, playlists, and shorts using the provided oEmbed URL patterns. Consumers such as WordPress, Slack, and other CMS or chat platforms can call its oEmbed endpoint to turn YouTube URLs into rich embeds — without writing custom integration code. Below are the endpoint details, supported URL patterns, and response formats for YouTube.

Endpoint

URL patterns

json

Format

Yes

Discovery

Endpoint

https://www.youtube.com/oembed

Supported URL patterns

https://*.youtube.com/watch* https://*.youtube.com/v/* https://youtu.be/* https://*.youtube.com/playlist?list=* https://youtube.com/playlist?list=* https://*.youtube.com/shorts* https://youtube.com/shorts* https://*.youtube.com/embed/* https://*.youtube.com/live* https://youtube.com/live*

Formats: json Link-tag discovery enabled

Test a YouTube URL

See the live oEmbed response and a rendered preview.

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