I was wondering if it is possible to create dynamically multiple youtube embeds on a page. Youtube video id's where stored in a JSON object.
I was hoping something like this can be created dynamically by the script:
I already use the Youtube Javascript API to load one hero video, I can imagine that I may can use that code as the basic, but it belongs to another part of the site then the hero video. Anyone have any suggestions?
I prepared a little JsFiddle for you: https://jsfiddle.net/v879x7bm/3/
Create a container in your HTML:
<div id="ytContainer"></div>
JavaScript with jQuery:
var yourJsonAsString = '{"videos":[{"title":"bla bla","id":"no3unQcv_vg"},{"title":"blub","id":"3IHrNcJdP8s"},{"title":"abc","id":"-6v-rwoRv_4"}]}';
var ytVideos = JSON.parse(yourJsonAsString);
for (var i in ytVideos.videos) {
var ytVideo = $("<iframe/>");
ytVideo.attr({
width: 560,
height: 315,
src: 'https://www.youtube.com/embed/' + ytVideos.videos[i].id,
frameborder: 0
});
$("#ytContainer").append(ytVideo);
}
In this example I expected your unserialized object structure is looking like this:
{
"videos":[
{
"title":"bla bla",
"id":"no3unQcv_vg"
},
{
"title":"blub",
"id":"3IHrNcJdP8s"
},
{
"title":"abc",
"id":"-6v-rwoRv_4"
}
]
}
But you can adapt to your needs :)
Imagine that your JSON string that contains the video urls. Here is some code that will work with jQuery. By changing the json_string
variable, it will change which videos get loaded to the screen.
<html>
<div id="content_div"></div>
</html>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(function () {
var json_string = '{ "vid1" : "www.vid1.url", "vid2" : "www.vid2.url"}';
//make the string into an object
var json_object = JSON.parse(json_string);
//loop through the json_object and add the new video each time through
for (i in json_object) {
jQuery("#content_div").append('<p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="' + json_object[i] + '"></iframe></p>');
}
});
</script>
JSfiddle here showing the code working, but using a <p>
tag instead of the iframe.