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Embedded YouTube playlists are not accessible

Today I noticed that embedded YouTube playlists (video series) are not accessible on my website. Last week it worked perfectly. The playlists are present on YouTube, but the link in the embedded version is broken.

My questions:

  1. Is this a known issue?
  2. How to fix it? (How to make embedding code working again?)

Note: there is no issue with embedded videos just with playlists.

Example. I'm trying to embed the playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLE8FSeLAY2on4zMQrrmFEIVjTzQfS6qt

The main steps to generate this embedding code are illustrated below:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLLE8FSeLAY2on4zMQrrmFEIVjTzQfS6qt" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

When I try to create embedding code on YouTube (Fig. 1., Fig. 2), it seems that there is an issue as the picture of the first video is missing (Fig. 3), and when I hover the mouse over "Watch on YouTube" the link displayed at the bottom left corner on my browser is incorrect (Fig. 4).

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Fig. 1

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Fig. 2

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Fig. 3

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Fig. 4

Solution

  • It seems Google made a few updates. In your embed code if you replace videoseries? with playlist? then that should work.