YouTube Iframe embed auto play

Question

I am trying to embed the new iframe version of a YouTube video and get it to auto play.

As far as I can tell, there is no way of doing this by amending flags to the URL. Is there a way to do it by using javascript & the API?

Answer 1

<iframe width="560" height="315" 
        src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9IILMHo4RCQ?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=1" 
        frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Answer 2

The flags, or parameters that you can use with IFRAME and OBJECT embeds are documented here; the details about which parameter works with what player are also clearly mentioned:

YouTube Embedded Players and Player Parameters

You will notice that autoplay is supported by all players (AS3, AS2 and HTML5).

Answer 3

The embedded code of youtube has autoplay off by default. Simply add autoplay=1at the end of "src" attribute. For example:

<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xzvScRnF6MU?autoplay=1" width="960" height="447" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Answer 4

August 2018 I didn't find a working example on the iframe implementation. Other questions were related to Chrome only, which gave it away a little.

You'll have to mute sound mute=1 in order to autoplay on Chrome. FF and IE seem to be working just fine using autoplay=1 as parameter.

<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/{{YOUTUBE-ID}}?autoplay=1&mute=1" name="youtube embed" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Answer 5

To have the accepted answer by mjhm working on Chrome 66 in May 2018, I added allow=autoplay to the iframe and enable_js=1 to the query string:

<iframe allow=autoplay width="420px" height="345px" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oHg5SJYRHA0?autoplay=1&enable_js=1"></iframe>

Answer 6

2014 iframe embed on how to embed a youtube video with autoplay and no suggested videos at end of clip

rel=0&autoplay 

Example Below: .

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/JWgp7Ny3bOo?rel=0&amp;autoplay=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>