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youtube / youtube-ios-player-helper

Lightweight helper library that allows iOS developers to add inline playback of YouTube videos through a WebView
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YouTube has changed something in the backend that has broken this framework #415

Closed acosmicflamingo closed 3 years ago

acosmicflamingo commented 3 years ago

I was able to use this framework just fine last night with the app I'm developing. This morning however, I found that I cannot play anything without getting "Please click here to watch the video on YouTube" appearing in the WKWebView. I also git cloned this project, installed the example repository, and found the same problem. This tells me it isn't the way I use the framework on my app, but that there is an inherent problem now that exists with the framework itself.

I imagine it has something to do with the YouTube backend since this has never happened before :(

acosmicflamingo commented 3 years ago

Does the Reddit iOS app use this framework? I found the same thing happened when I tried to play an embedded video on it. It’s starting to look like this is something YouTube needs to fix and not the frameworks that use it. Hmm...

acosmicflamingo commented 3 years ago

The problem has disappeared. Definitely something from YouTube side.