Free YouTube Embed Code Generator

A YouTube embed code is a short piece of HTML, an iframe, that shows a YouTube player inside your own web page. Visitors watch on your site while YouTube hosts and streams the video. This generator builds that iframe from a normal video link.

1. Paste the video link into YouTube address. 2. Enter a start time in seconds and the player width and height. 3. Click Create result and copy the code. 4. In your site editor, add an HTML or embed block, paste the code and publish.

Enter the start point in whole seconds in Start (seconds), such as 75 for 1:15. The generator adds start=75 to the embed URL, and the player begins there when a visitor presses play. Playback can begin a moment early because YouTube starts from the nearest keyframe.

It’s the domain for YouTube’s Privacy Enhanced Mode. According to YouTube, a view in this mode isn’t used to personalize the viewer’s YouTube browsing or the ads they see elsewhere. The generator uses it for every embed, so you don’t need to change the domain yourself.

Watch pages, youtu.be short links, Shorts, live and embed URLs work, including links from m.youtube.com and music.youtube.com. A playlist link works only if it contains a video ID, and then just that one video is embedded. Channel pages can’t be embedded.

The generator doesn’t have switches for those. You can add YouTube player parameters to the end of the src yourself, such as &autoplay=1&mute=1 for muted autoplay or &controls=0 to hide the controls. Most browsers block autoplay with sound, and YouTube notes that autoplayed embeds don’t add to the view count.

The owner may have turned off embedding, or the video is private, removed or blocked in the visitor’s country. Age-restricted videos send viewers back to YouTube instead of playing on your page. Some site builders also strip iframes from regular text blocks, so paste the code into an HTML or custom code block.

Yes. Paste the Shorts link, and the generator turns it into a standard embed with the same video ID. Shorts are vertical, so set a tall size such as 315 × 560 to avoid wide black bars.

No. The video ID is read from your link and the code is built in your browser, without contacting YouTube or SocQ. Visitors’ browsers connect to YouTube only once the embed is live on your page.

Yes. It’s free with no signup or account, and the code has no SocQ branding or tracking added. Generate as many embeds as you need for any public YouTube video that allows embedding.