javascript - Embedding youtube video "Refused to display document because display forbidden by X-Frame-Options"

Question

I'm trying to embed a youtube video on to my page once the user gives the link to the video.

<iframe width='560' height='315' src='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<video id>&amp;output=embed' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe>

But when I try to add this I get this error. After inspecting the page in chrome, I see this error in the console tab

"Refused to display document because of the display is forbidden by X-Frame-Options"

I'm not able to see the video even in IE and Firefox also

I even tried adding the

 header('X-Frame-Options:Allow-From http://www.youtube.com'); 
 header('X-Frame-Options:GOFORIT);
 &output=embed to the url

After reading certain solutions in other posts.

But I still get the same error.

I also see that the youtube has the method of object embedding to show the video, but already youtube has made that as old method of embedding the video. So I want to use the new iframe method of embedding the video on to my page.

Problem is seen in

• Firefox 11
• Chrome 18.0
• IE 8

Anybody faced this problem?

Answer 1

The page you're setting as the source of the iframe (the Youtube /watch page) doesn't want to be embedded in your page. You cannot force it to let you do that.

The correct URL to embed is of the form:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/<video-id>

In your case

https://www.youtube.com/embed/oHg5SJYRHA0