How to Embed YouTube Videos in the Jupyter Notebook

To display the handy methods to embed the videos from YouTube channels into a Jupyter notebook

I illustrated how to easily embed local and online videos or audios in a Jupyter notebook using HTML in one of the previous articles. However, the methods do not work on the videos from YouTube channels. This post will focus on two methods to embed the videos from YouTube channels into a Jupyter notebook.

Table of Contents

`1. %%HTML` magic

(1) Embed a video

To embed and play YouTube videos in a notebook using %%HTML magic, we should get the embed link:

Go to the YouTube video you want to embed, for example, go to one of my videos by clicking my video
Below the video, click SHARE
Click Embed
From the appearing box, copy the HTML code

We just keep the main parameters and embed link in <iframe>, and remove the rest information as the following example. Then we can adjust the size paremeters (width and height) to the size video.

%%HTML
<iframe width=”560" height=”315"
 src=”https://youtube.com/embed/d1NK83vve6c"
</iframe>

The output looks as follows:

(2) Align a video

From the above screenshot, we can see that the default alignment of the video frame is left. If you want to align it center, for example, we use HTML <div align=”center”>.

%%HTML
<div align="center">
    <iframe width="560" height="315"
    src="https://youtube.com/embed/d1NK83vve6c"
    </iframe>
</div>

2. IPython Functions

(1) Embed a video

IPython.display provide a YouTubeVideo() function, which much more convenient to embed a YouTube video.

What we need to do is to import the function first, and then go to the YouTube video and copy its ID. Lastly, we paste it into the YouTubeVideo() function. For example:

from IPython.display import YouTubeVideo

YouTubeVideo("d1NK83vve6c", width=400)

(2) Align a video

If you want to align the YouTube video, you can use IPythonHTML() function or the %%html magic above. However, we have to use embedding address in this method as in the method of %%html magic.

from IPython.display import HTML

HTML("""
<div align="center">
    <iframe width="560" height="315"
    src="https://youtube.com/embed/d1NK83vve6c"
    </iframe>
</div>
""")

3. Online course

If you are interested in learning Jupyter notebook in details, you are welcome to enroll one of my course Practical Jupyter Notebook from Beginner to Expert.

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