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Asked: 2026-06-07T22:34:47+00:00

This is very strange to me… I have a simple WebView that loads and

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This is very strange to me…

I have a simple WebView that loads and interacts with the user exactly like safari mobile (iPhone). Now when you visit m.youtube.com in safari, the url changes when you click on a link to something like this…

http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en&client=mv-google&v=HX6SyoZ5kw8

The problem with this is I don’t think that url is being used in my webview… What do I mean? The following code is used to load a url every time the user try’s to click on a link, and it works, but I have a problem with Youtube…

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView*)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest*)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {
NSURL *url = request.URL;
NSString *urlString = url.absoluteString;
NSLog(@"%@",urlString);
VideoURLTextBox.text = urlString;
return YES;
}

When I first start up the webview it loads m.youtube.com and NSLogs() it into my console, but when I decide to click on a video it fails to NSLog() therefore I don’t think a new url is being loaded, but when you load m.youtube.com in safari and click on a video you load a url like above, so why does this not NSLog() in my iPhone application?

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  1. Editorial Team

    What your probably seeing is that the youtube video is running javascript to play the video, you’d have to intercept the javascript callbacks to see that. Here’s a link to the youtube video player api, detailing the callbacks, https://developers.google.com/youtube/js_api_reference#SubscribingEvents

    If you just want to embed a youtube video in an iOS application then use this.

    Using the mobile YouTube site isn’t great, I had lots of problems with it in the past and ended up making a UIWebView category. I came across your question and decided to throw it on github 🙂

    https://github.com/enigmaticflare/UIWebView-YouTube–iOS-Category–ARC-compliant-code

    UIWebView+YouTube iOS category to simplify loading youtube videos.

    Instructions

    1) Add these files to your project

    UIWebView+YouTube.h
UIWebView+YouTube.m

    2) Initiate UIWebView for example

    @property (strong, nonatomic) UIWebView *webView;
@synthesize webView = _webView

_webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,212,172];
//set the X,Y origin of CGRect to where you want the webView to appear.

_webView.delegate = self;
[_webView loadYouTubeVideoID:@"gR8dO7Cln6M"];
[self.view addSubView:_webView];

    Good luck, hope this is what your looking for 🙂

    Adam

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