Hi, I have a specific question regarding YouTube videos that I haven’t so far seen answered in any posts on this forum. We use the Onebox feature to embed YouTube instructional videos into our posts on Discourse so that our users can see how to use our products. The only problem with this is that …

This would need a patch to the Onebox code… I think I can do it.

Thanks Kane! That’s very helpful.

Hmm, I just looked at the embedding documentation and it looks like they have quietly removed the ability to turn off suggested videos at the end? Or I was mistaken & it was never there. Supported parameters - YouTube Embedded Players and Player Parameters | ... YouTube players can be…

Seems like it’s still there in the YouTube UI [image]

the rel=0 parameter is what you want

Hmmm… I just tried appending the URL with ?rel=0, and I still see related videos displayed at the end.

It seems like it can be made to work. Here’s a YouTube video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZXVd_Rjm_s For this to work with the YouTube onebox it needs add rel=0 to the embed params. Just adding ?rel=0 to the URL doesn’t work.

Yeah, a patch to the onebox code is needed to pass the rel=0 all the way through.

[image] Passing through rel=0 on YouTube embeddings Feature Added support for rel=0 via: https://github.com/discourse/onebox/commit/734c5eef1e370e39f9624da8bb1534d114f4cdf6 Note that YouTube changed the behaviour for rel parameter since September 25, 2018: …

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vin_ef (Vin) September 24, 2015, 12:44pm 5

Seems like it’s still there in the YouTube UI

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Embedding YouTube without recommended videos at the end?

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