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Asked: 2026-05-27T16:39:38+00:00

I cannot find this documented anywhere and after looking over Google’s api docs for

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I cannot find this documented anywhere and after looking over Google’s api docs for YouTube ( http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol.html#Retrieving_and_searching_for_videos ) I’m not sure if it’s even possible.

Basically i would like to query youtube in a way that the videos returned are only embeddable vids.

Currently i have something like this:

yt_client.videos_by(:query => "techno viking")

That search works great but will return all matching videos, even the ones that do not allow embedding.

Any ideas? I’d love to have YouTube do the sorting instead of me filtering the search results with ruby. 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    Answering my own question here with content from my last comment:

    yt_client.videos_by(:query => "techno viking", :format => 5)

    From the doc page http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol.html#Retrieving_and_searching_for_videos:

    “Developers commonly add &format=5 to their queries to restrict results to videos that can be embedded on their sites.”

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