# Quickly explain what Onebox is?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/quickly-explain-what-onebox-is/28114>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [April 30, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quickly-explain-what-onebox-is/28114 "2015-04-30T00:44:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quickly-explain-what-onebox-is/28114/24 "2020-10-22T21:53:21Z")

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Some possible reasons:

- the youtube video has specified it is not allowed to embed (in the youtube settings for the video)

- your server IP is blacklisted by youtube

The latter one can be tested by posting the youtube video link here. If it works here..

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