I've read about sharing account credentials and I'm willing to share it if required.I've read the guidelines for opening an issue.I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones.I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped.I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser.I've verified that I'm running yt-dlp version 2022.02.04.…And this is how you share YouTube videos by email, using your Yahoo Mail account, or YouTube's built-in email and messaging functionality. (Since the URL of YouTube videos in your browser's address bar often includes extra information, it is preferable to get the raw URL as displayed below the video description: long links can get broken across a couple of lines of text in emails, in which case they become user name-clickable - the raw YouTube URL is always short enough to avoid this problem. Now that the URL for the video is in your clipboard, you can go to Yahoo Mail, create a new email, and paste the URL in the body of the email. The "URL" (internet address) of the video is always displayed right below the description: click inside the URL field to select its content, then right-click and choose Copy from the context menu. If the link to a video is sent directly from your Yahoo email address, no chances of this happening. This also increases the chances of not having your email filtered as spam: depending on the email recipient's settings, all emails from unknown senders (in the case above, YouTube) could be automatically filtered as junk mail (spam), or deleted. The second way to email a link to a YouTube video is to use your Yahoo Mail account directly: this will allow any email replies to go directly to your Yahoo email address.
This is how the emailed video link will look inside Yahoo Mail: opening the email will include the optional message you typed, a description of the video, and a clickable link and thumbnail to open the video on YouTube.Įmail a video link using your Yahoo Mail email account Optionally add a message to the email, and click Send to email the video link.
Clicking on one of the user names or email addresses listed on the right will add them as email recipients. But the Send Video option uses email.Īfter you clicked on the Send Video link, an email compose form will show up you can enter either a YouTube user name (in which case the link to the video will be emailed to their YouTube messages), or an actual email address. To email a link to a YouTube video, click on the Share link displayed right below the video player then, click on Send Video (notice that you can also share the video through Facebook or Twitter). In some cases (where an email reply is not needed), this may not matter. One option is to email a link to the video from YouTube itself: the downside to this approach is that the email will come from a YouTube email address, not your Yahoo Mail account. So, the next best alternative to actually embedding the video in an email is to send an actual link to the video, that the recipient can click to open YouTube in a new browser window. The problem comes from security: to keep emails as safe as possible, Yahoo Mail (and other email providers like Hotmail) will block no only images by default (you can show images for contacts and safe senders), but any scripting (like JavaScript) and embeds (like YouTube videos) will not be displayed. Can you embed a YouTube video in an email?įrom a technical standpoint, there is no limitation to including a YouTube video inside the body of an email (or "embedding" the video).