I stream live on youtube a lot and since yesterday I experience a weird thing:
I embedded the livestream URL in my site. it was youtube.com/embed/ABCDE (normal embed link). That link used to show the current livestream and not a specific video. for example:
I'm streaming and you can watch it on youtube.com/embed/ABCDE.
When i'm finished, the video gets its own url, something like youtube.com/watch?v=FGHIJ. In the next time I will stream, users can watch the stream on youtube.com/embed/ABCDE (that was a permanent url that didn't change).
Now, every time I stream, the livestream get its own link at first place, which means I have to update my embed code manually every time I stream.
I researched a bit around Google, SO and YouTube and I found out that a livestream's permanent url is youtube.com/channel/CHANNEL_ID/live. It's awesome and all, but I can't find a way to embed it.
(I use wordpress and I didn't find any plugin to do it automatically for me).
TL:DR; how to embed the livestream in the page youtube.com/channel/CHANNEL_ID/live?
The embed URL for a channel's live stream is:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=CHANNEL_ID
You can find your CHANNEL_ID at https://www.youtube.com/account_advanced