YouTube videos on my form

Anvil Q&A
1

Have tried to link a YouTube video and despite being set to autoplay, it 1) doesn’t play automatically and 2) when I click play the video says ‘An Error has occurred’

Any ideas why the video isn’t playing?
(I had been trying to link it to play when a label is hovered over but that’s the next step!)

2

Can you give me the YT link and I’ll test here?

This link works fine (with and without autoplay) : XyNlqQId-nk

so I’m guessing the video you are linking to might not like being linked to for some reason. Did the error message say anything else?

3

don’t judge…teaching Year 9 student show to turn their python text based adventure games into visual adventures!

4

Blimey! Scared me half to death!

Ok that works for me - are you putting the whole link in or just the very last bit (the random letters of the video’s id)?

5

just the very last bit

6

Ok, again I’ll need to see your project - please can you clone it like you did with the maps one?

7

(copied from a PM, just to complete this thread)

You were not referencing the YT control in the page, but instead creating a new one.

So either set up the one you put on the page with the designer :

self.youtube_video_1.youtube_id="2lPcCNyopGI"
self.youtube_video_1.autoplay = True

or remove that and add the one you created in code to the page :

ytv = YouTubeVideo(youtube_id="2lPcCNyopGI", autoplay=True)
self.add_component(ytv)