Embedded YouTube without title!
2 min readNov 27, 2019
Show info is deprecated and will be ignored after September 25, 2018
As we all know, showinfo parameter has been depreciated in 2018 and since then there is no way to remove header from embedded YouTube video. We can remove controls or related videos, but we will always see disturbing buttons at the top.
This solution is based on my iOS experience with official YT player.
How to make it simple? We load ‘embed’ url to WebView:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/_VIDEO_ID_?_OTHER_PARAMS_What _VIDEO_ID_ is we all know and _OTHER_PARAMS_ is YT player parameters.
After loading the page, in my case in this function:
func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, didFinish navigation: WKNavigation!)we can remove unnecessary elements by doing this:
Result is pretty good!
We are also able to interact with video by using JS messages:
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