How to remove signin button from youtube video in swift

Question

I am new in swift and I am getting problem in removing sign in button from youtube video

my code is like this

var videoUrl = vedioarr1[indexPath.row] as? String
videoUrl = (videoUrl ?? "")
print(videoUrl)

let youtubeUrl = URL(string: videoUrl ?? "")!
let youtubeRequest = URLRequest(url: youtubeUrl ?? URL(string: "")!)                    
cell.youtubeWebView.load(youtubeRequest)

VedioUrl contains url YoutubeWebView is WKWebView

I Just want to remove sign in button

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cKdlhaQrGo

there is **no key** to remove the signinbutton. see this for example : [YouTube Embedded Players and Player Parameters](https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters) — Anbu.Karthik, Jan 02 '20 at 07:24

Keshu R. · Answer 1 · 2020-01-02T07:55:39.970

If you just want to embed a youtube video, Youtube has an embed URL for it. You just need to get the videoID and create your URL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cKdlhaQrGo this is the URL you are currently using. The ID after watch?v= is the videoID. In your case, the videoID is 7cKdlhaQrGo.

Now you can create your URL like this:

let myURL = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cKdlhaQrGo"

let youtubeEmbedURL = myURL.replacingOccurrences(of: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=", with: "https://www.youtube.com/embed/") 

let youtubeRequest = URLRequest(url: URL(string: youtubeEmbedURL)!)  

cell.youtubeWebView.load(youtubeRequest)

This will remove the signing button and make sure only video shows up in whole screen.

Update2:

If you want to disable controls, you can add this string to your url,

let youtubeEmbedURL = myURL.replacingOccurrences(of: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=", with: "https://www.youtube.com/embed/") + "?rel=0?version=3&autoplay=1&controls=0&&showinfo=0&loop=1" // this string will disable controls.

But you can not disable title.

YouTube deprecated parameter showinfo (can no more hide title) and changed parameter rel behavior (will show related videos).

Details in https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#release_notes_08_23_2018

Note: This is a deprecation announcement for the showinfo parameter. In addition, the behavior for the rel parameter is changing. Titles, channel information, and related videos are an important part of YouTube’s core user experience, and these changes help to make the YouTube viewing experience consistent across different platforms.

Actual answer here : https://stackoverflow.com/a/52767228/8374890

check if youtubeEmbedURL url is correct. https://www.youtube.com/embed/7cKdlhaQrGo . You can directly open it in chrome too, it does loads. check your code again — Keshu R., Jan 02 '20 at 07:26
Sign in button is removed but showing Title and watch latter and share button — Mujtaba, Jan 02 '20 at 07:44
There is no way this code would crash your device. You are doing anything wrong. Please check :) or paste your view controller code here. — Keshu R., Jan 02 '20 at 09:02
But it depends where have you paste your code. if the code is being called again and again. — Keshu R., Jan 02 '20 at 09:10

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 02 '20 at 07:35

Instead of loading a request, load HTML string as:

let ytEmbedString = "<iframe id='ytplayer' type='text/html' width='640' height='360' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/M7lc1UVf-VE?autoplay=1&origin=http://example.com' frameborder='0'></iframe>"

cell.youtubeWebView.loadHTMLString(ytEmbedString, baseURL: nil)

Check YouTube docs for more details on embedding.

How to remove signin button from youtube video in swift

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