YouTube Live Streaming embed code keeps changing

Question

I do live streaming with YouTube and I can watch it on my site by coping the embed code into my site

Its looks like this below

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gz54fede3Y" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

But recently I discovered that every time I do a live stream, I have to start updating the embeded code on my site each time with the one that will be generated from my live channel.

This is because it keeps regenerating a different code. Its so frustrating to do this, is there a way to get a particular embed code that will not change so I don't have to worry about this, or is there a setting that I am not aware of.

Solution

There is a static URL to embed the video player for the "Stream now" stream. It is currently not exposed anywhere in the UI, but we will fix that soon (hopefully.)

It looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=[channel ID]

You can also use a YouTube Gaming link, like so: https://gaming.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=[channel ID]

You can determine your channel ID by going to https://www.youtube.com/account_advanced and copying the string after "YouTube Channel ID".

Once you've got this link, you can use it in the "src" attribute of your embed code.

Comments

[Plumptre Ademola]

Marc thanks alot, I used the gaming link , I just added my channel Id to the gaming url so it will look something like this <iframe width="640" height="360" src="gaming.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=mychanneli‌​d" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> remember change mychannelid to your real channel id

[FlipMcF]

Can we get a link to official documentation for this feature?

[FlipMcF]

Best source for this answer I see comes from reddit.com/r/youtubegaming/comments/50bw6h/… By reddit.com/user/crschmidt

[Marc Chambers]

I work at YouTube. We generated this answer internally and are socializing it (the Redditor in the linked comment works here as well.) This SO answer is our canonical source for now :) twitter.com/YouTubeDev/status/770709748731609088

[freedrull]

Does this work with the iframe player API? developers.google.com/youtube/…

[Jonathan]

Has this been fixed?

[Bombelman]

This solution does not work anymore, I did use it a while without problems, but YT must have changed something. Does anyone know of another solution because I cannot find it. @MarcChambers

[Rajendra]

It works. Make sure to make your stream public. It wont work on private or Unlisted stream.