YouTube Embed Tool

by LonNaylor

Posted: 15 years ago 17 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hi Warriors,

It's pretty easy to grab the YouTube Embed code from YouTube pages and paste it into your web page or blog to show a video.

And you can click the little Customize icon to select a size, colors, turn off related videos for the player you embed...

But, you can also do some other things that YouTube doesn't have but you have to hack the embed code.

I got tired of that so I built a little web tool that let's you simply paste in the URL of any video that allows sharing and:

Set it to show in High Quality (HQ)
Show the video in HD (if possible)
Turn OFF the totally annoying Search Bar
Ditch the visitor stealing Related Videos & Enhanced Genie Menu
Customize the Colors
Add a border
More features to come...like custom video skins.

Check it out at:

YouTube Embed Code Customizer - High Quality-Search Box and related videos options

It's not totally perfect...still a work in progress but it's copy / paste easy to add High Quality settings to YouTube videos (you normally have to add a special string of text in two places to get this to work).

Hope it helps you show better YouTube video quality without some of the viewer stealing distractions!

#embed #tool #youtube #youtube embedded

Josh Anderson 15 years ago

Very nice tool Lon,

Funny thing... I was going to charge people as part of one of our upcoming services to do all these little tricks :-)

I've seen quite a few people creating these little scripts to make this stuff easier for those who do not want to manually modify the embed code.

Pretty useful.
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- Shannon Herod 15 years ago
  
  Awesome tool Lon,
  
  Actually been doing all of these things by hand, and it was a pain in the butt.
  
  Thank you for the tool. I will definitely add this to my video product I also have.
  
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  KarenKramer 15 years ago
  
  Lon..
  
  Thank you so much... This is exactly what I've been looking for..
  
  Saved me the hassle of trying to get it created...LOL
  
  I also think it's awesome that you are offering for free:-)
  
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  dolcevita 15 years ago
  
  great tip,thanks.
  
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  LonNaylor 15 years ago
  
  Thanks to everyone! Glad you find it useful...
  
  Josh, ya I also thought about putting it inside my membership site but I figured that YouTube will probably add the API settings to the Customize feature...at least for the High Quality setting...
  
  But I think I can keep adding value to it in the long run...
  
  Anyone interested in being able to pick custom video skins as part of the process and output?
  
  Thanks again and if you like the tool you can use the Share This buttons [hint]
  
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jpuppy 15 years ago

Very Cool!!
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Raydal 15 years ago

Thanks, great little tool for sure.

I just tried it on http://copywriter.tv and I got an extra piece of
code [<object width="340" height="280" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></object>]

But I deleted this and got rid of the extra space.

-Ray
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- sam520 15 years ago
  
  Thanks Lon for this great tool.
  
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Chris Whitrod 15 years ago

Hey Thank you Lon
Very generous contribution.
Chris
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yaz8888 15 years ago

great tool...thanks
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- LonNaylor 15 years ago
  
  Thanks all for the great feedback!
  
  It seems that this tool is helping some folks out but I want to make it even better.
  
  I'm thinking of adding the ability to select a number of graphic "skins" to the selection process.
  
  This will "wrap" your YouTube videos in some nice looking graphics...effectively creating an entirely new player "look"
  
  Personally, I think this feature would be VERY cool but would like to know if others think it would be useful as well?
  
  I'm currently using such a skin on my main squeeze page and have seen a 14% gain in my conversion rate....nothing else has changed so indications are that the skin is having a positive impact...curious to see if others experience the same.
  
  Thanks!
  
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  Maxo 15 years ago
  
  Thank you this is awesome!
  
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  Wah Bhatti 15 years ago
  
  WOW LON you are defo the video go to guy you even made it to switch of related video great work this is idiot proof must have tool for easy loading of videos to your site or blog
  ps www.screencastprofits.com is looking good
  
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Alan Petersen 15 years ago

Hey Lon,

Sweet tool! I love it. Beats tweaking the code. This makes it very easy to change the video player size plus all the other goodies you got on there like adding a border, auto-play, etc. Awesome. Thanks.

Being able to add skins would be fantastic. I've used those graphic templates for videos and their a bit clunky. I would love a skin with a "Watch This Video" with a an arrow graphic to it for a squeeze page.
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Hackbridge 15 years ago

I was looking at the interface and wondered if you might add a redirect twist on the script, so that if I put it on a IM blog, it will send people to a particular url?

Kind regards

Brian
Ps I've twittered it and put a link on a popular forum so I hope it helps some?
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- freezzo 15 years ago
  
  Somewhat similar concept is the website I have built that allows you to create "youtube playlists" you can post on your blog or something. Its entirely free if you want to check it out too. Its in my sig called jamzee.
  
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mhobbs25 15 years ago

This is a pretty cool tool, I will try it out...

Will save me tons of time...

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