YouTube Hack: Automatically Start and Loop Videos

Contributor Icon Contributed by MickeyMouse Date Icon February 15, 2007  
Tag Icon Tagged: Internet  

Building on the previous URL youtube hack presented here, I have figured out how to automatically start and loop youtube videos.


Davak recently posted on how to hack the URL of a youtube video to increase or decrease the size. This continues the practice of manipulating the URL to change the default embedded youtube player’s characteristics.

I’ll use the very cool Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us clip as an example. Here is the default code.

To make the video play automatically (like it does on the youtube page) add &autoplay=1 to both of the youtube url codes above.

So you would change http://www.youtube.com/v/6gmP4nk0EOE to http://www.youtube.com/v/6gmP4nk0EOE&autoplay=1

This resulting code will therefore automatically play the youtube clip when the page is visited (unless youtube is choking for some reason today):

If you want the youtube clip to automatically restart and loop when done then add this additional modifier to the url: &loop=1

Therefore, you would change all the youtube urls to this:
http://www.youtube.com/v/6gmP4nk0EOE&autoplay=1&loop=1

The results code should autostart and autoloop…

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  • http://www.leadstampede.com Brian

    Thank you for this page. It really helped me loop my videos so that people don't end up looking at other peoples videos at the end..so they stay on my page.

  • mo

    DON'T WORK

  • mo

    don't work on piczo

  • mo

    don't work on piczo

  • ioftigr

    Any way to make this validate? I am currently using swfobject to make it validate so it would be nice to continue to do so.

  • http://www.grupobastet.com.br Thiago

    THANK YOU, GUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.clipspromo.com/ making youtube videos

    This is great to know. Thanks

  • Su

    Thanks A LOT :D

  • Some guy

    It doesn't work

  • jenn

    It doesn't work.. i've tried it a dozen times..
    And I'm getting sooo pissed off. srsly.

  • Satisfied

    its wor king this is what i make
    <object width=”426″ height=”320″ data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/svFY5K6IYJg&autoplay=1&loop=1&hl=en&fs=1&” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/svFY5K6IYJg&autoplay=1&loop=1&hl=en&fs=1&” /><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”never” /><param name=”allownetworking” value=”internal” /><param name=”quality” value=”high” /><param name=”scale” value=”noscale” /><param name=”salign” value=”l” /><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”/><!–[if IE]><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/svFY5K6IYJg&autoplay=1&loop=1&hl=en&fs=1&” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”350″ allowscriptaccess=”never” allownetworking=”internal” quality=”high” scale=”noscale” salign=”l” wmode=”transparent” /><![endif]–></object>

  • http://TheHotSpotGuide.com Free_Dating_Service

    Great videos thanks for all the info!

  • lezomeo

    You can also try http://www.youtubeloop.com. This website allow us to search for clips on the same page, so more convenient.

  • Cookie Monster

    Thanks! This helps me out a lot.

  • chris456789

    <object classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ height=”344″ width=”425″>
    <param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”never” />
    <param name=”allowNetworking” value=”internal” />
    <param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/6g123do8xtE&autoplay=1&loop=1hl=en_US&fs=1&” />
    <param name=”wmode” value=”transparent” />
    <embed type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowScriptAccess=”never” allowNetworking=”internal” src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/6g123do8xtE&autoplay=1&loop=1hl=en_US&fs=1&” height=”344″ width=”425″ wmode=”transparent” />
    </object>

  • Hendrick
  • Rick

    I use http://www.infiniteyoutube.com to loop videos, it's much easier to do.

    In the address bar, add the word “infinite” before the word youtube. This is the easiest way to put Youtube videos on loop. When you are finished your address bar should be changed from:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

    To

    http://www.infiniteyoutube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

    You can also go to http://www.infiniteyoutube.com and just paste in a link to the video.

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