Converting youtube video link to embed link with JavaScript
by Max Rohde,
Videos on youtube usually have a URI such as the following:
These URIs cannot be used to embed the video in an iframe such as the following:
In order to work as part of an embedded iframe, youtube video links must be in the following format:
Luckily, given any 'normal' youtube link, it is very easy to generate such an embed link. In JavaScript, this can be done with the following function:
function createYouTubeEmbedLink (link) {
return link.replace("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=", "http://www.youtube.com/embed/");
}