Youtube Live Embed Player to Website

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Youtube Live Embed Player to Website

weaver86

Anyone have any experience putting a Youtube player for live services on their website?
We are using restream.io currently to push to facebook and youtube. Their widget is not working. We use Nucleus for our website. I'm open to using something else if there is a better option through restream.

joelwsmith

weaver86

Thanks for reaching out!

Have you tried using just the YouTube embed? Restream's embed widget is a bit tricky and doesn't work well with a lot of other platforms and services.

weaver86

How do I access that? haha- I've heard you have to have a certain amount of subscribers.

joelwsmith

weaver86

You do not need a certain number of subscribers to embed live streams. The subscriber limit is to enable the ability to live stream from a mobile device or through YouTube's API.

To embed a YouTube live video, it's the same as embedding a regular YouTube video. See here:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171780?hl=en

You can also embed a player that shows the current (or last aired) live video from your channel by using this:

<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=CHANNEL_ID"></iframe>

Replace "CHANNEL_ID" with your channel's ID, found in https://www.youtube.com/account_advanced.

weaver86

I cannot get this to work for the life of me. When I add it- the box just says video unavailable. Think its a nucleus incompatibility? Or some weird setting on my youtube channel? or?

joelwsmith

weaver86

What happens if you embed a regular YouTube video from your channel (if you have any)? Does that work?

It could be something to do with Nucleus, but that would be a question for them.

weaver86

if I embed a regular YouTube video it works perfectly. I may reach out to nucleus and see what they say.

joelwsmith

weaver86

I just used that code I posted above on a test page on my site and it works with a current live channel, but it appears it no longer works with non-live channels that have archived live streams (it used to). I need to check around a bit and see what may have changed and if there are any other options.