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YouTube broke embed links recently and didn't update their docs

• zahlman 1y ago
  I was reviewing one of my blog articles from early this year (https://zahlman.github.io/posts/2025/02/28/python-packaging-3/ https://zahlman.github.io/posts/2025/02/28/python-packaging-...) and I noticed that the YouTube embed (for a classic Homestar Runner episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az49aNuYeJs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az49aNuYeJs) was now showing an error message ("Error 153 Video player configuration error", with a link to the actual video). I tried the actual */embed/* link manually in a new tab and saw the same error. So I went to look up the documentation, under the assumption that they'd changed how this works... but nothing has changed. The same process is described for getting "embed" HTML, and you can still follow that process and get that HTML... and copy and paste it into a new .html file... and open it in a web browser... and get the same Error 153. Which also happens for the demo embedded video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJIrF4YjHfQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJIrF4YjHfQ) in the documentation itself.
  • DemocracyFTW2 1y ago
    it works for me, both the embedded and the non-embedded versions play...
    • zahlman 1y ago
      On further investigation, it appears that this requires whitelisting JavaScript from jnn-pa.googleapis.com, for some reason.