10 Great jQuery Youtube Plugins

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Youtube jQuery plugins give you an easy option for customize youtube video player. In the list below is 10 youtube jquery plugins.

1. Jquery.tube.js

jquery.tube.js is a jQuery plugin to access YouTube’s player and data APIs transparently. The basic approach is centered around ‘tube’ objects: a tube is an abstract container filled with videos based on a YouTube playlist, user’s feed or a search query; a tube offers the basic control and event handling interfaces you would expect from a playlist (play, pause, next, etc.) and is associated with a player instance. A player is a thin wrapper around YouTube’s iFrame or (if window.pushMessage is unavailable) JavaScript player API; thus, the player is intended to work transparently on legacy browsers (IE7) and HTML5 capable devices without Flash support.

2. tektube

This plugin displays a user’s recent videos on youtube. It is meant to display your latest videos uploaded to youtube on your website or your blog.

3. jQuery YouTube TubePlayer Plugin

Basically this jQuery plugin implements the YouTube Player API pretty much to spec. I’ve omitted some functions but believe I have captured most of the functionality a developer will need to implement a youtube player. The kind of things that this plugin allows the developer to simply get done are —

4. Open Standard Media Player

The Open Standard Media Player is an all-in-one media player for the web. This media player is an industry changing, open source (GPL) media player that is built to dynamically deliver any type of web media, including HTML5, YouTube, Vimeo, and Flash.

5. opaqalize

Fast and dirty function to add “wmode=’opaque'” to EMBED and OBJECT tags so, eg. YouTube videos don’t make your lightboxes/Dialogs go a little insane.

6. A jQuery Plugin For All Your Video Embedding Needs

vid is a small and simple jQuery plugin that you can use to load in video players from your favourite video sites.

7. YouTube video thumbnail/screenshot getter – jYouTube

It takes any YouTube video URL or video ID as first parameter and thumbnail size (big or small) as the second parameter. Utility returns that video’s screenshot URL.

8. jQuery Youtube Player

The jQuery Youtube Player plugin builds a custom youtube video player, toolbar and playlist area.

9. jQuery YouTube Popup Player Plugin

This is plugin is very simple to configure and use. YouTube Video Id can be stored in any attribute of the DOM element. This plugin keeps track of all the assigned popup events and won’t assign the click event if there already exists one, that way you can reassign the event for dynamically added HTML elements without affecting the existing ones. This plugin automatically gets the video title from YouTube to display on the dialog box title bar.

10. jquery-tubular

Tubular is a jQuery plugin that lets you set a YouTube video as your page background. Just attach it to your body tag, specify a YouTube video ID and tell it the ID of your content wrapper, and you’re on your way.