🚀 VueTube

Vue component acting as a thin layer over the YouTube IFrame Player API which renders fast.
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Key Features • Installation • Documentation • FAQ • Browsers support • License • Inspiration • Support the project • Contributing

Key Features ✨

• Small ~2KB js (minified and gzipped) and ~1KB css
• No dependencies
• Lazy load support
• Webp support, and fallback to jpg if the browser doesn't support it
• Render fast, improve your web's performance
• Built with a11y in mind

Installation ⚙️

npm

# Vue 2
npm install vuetube

# Vue 3
npm install vuetube@next

yarn

# Vue 2
yarn add vuetube

# Vue 3
yarn add vuetube@next

Install plugin

/**
 * Vue 2
 */
import Vue from 'vue'
import VueTube from 'vuetube';
import 'vuetube/dist/vuetube.css'

Vue.use(VueTube)

/**
 * Vue 3
 */
import { createApp } from 'vue'
import VueTube from 'vuetube';
import 'vuetube/dist/vuetube.css'
import App from './App.vue'

const app = createApp(App)
app.use(VueTube)

or

Install component

/**
 * Vue 2
 */
import Vue from 'vue'
import { VueTube } from 'vuetube';
import 'vuetube/dist/vuetube.css'

Vue.component('VueTube', VueTube)

/**
 * Vue 3
 */
import { createApp } from 'vue'
import { VueTube } from 'vuetube';
import 'vuetube/dist/vuetube.css'
import App from './App.vue'

const app = createApp(App)
app.component('VueTube', VueTube)

Documentation 🤗

Browse online documentation here

Props

Prop	Type	Description	Default value
videoId	string	The ID of YouTube video (required)	-
isPlaylist	boolean	Should embed a playlist of several videos	false
aspectRatio	number	The aspect ratio for iframe	16 / 9
enableCookies	boolean	Change video host to www.youtube.com. By default, video loaded from https://www.youtube-nocookie.com.	false
playerVars	object	Parameters that are available in the YouTube embedded player.	{}
disableWarming	boolean	Disable warming up connections to origins that are in the critical path on component hover.	false
disableWebp	boolean	Disable webp thumbnail.	false
imageAlt	string	Alt attribute for image	''
imageLoading	string	Loading attribute for image	'lazy'
resolution	string	Thumbnail resolution from YouTube API.	'sddefault'
buttonLabel	string	Aria-label attribute for button	'Play video'
iframeTitle	string	Title attribute for iframe	''
iframeAllow	string	Allow attribute for iframe	'accelerometer;autoplay;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture'

Events

Event name	Description
player:play	The user clicked on the play button
player:load	Iframe has been loaded
player:ready	This event fires whenever a player has finished loading and is ready to begin receiving API calls. Make sure you pass enablejsapi: 1 to the playerVars props object This event is similar to onReady event from Youtube API documentation.
player:statechange	This event fires whenever the player's state changes. Make sure you pass enablejsapi: 1 to the playerVars props object This event is similar to onStateChange event from Youtube API documentation.
player:playbackqualitychange	This event fires whenever the video playback quality changes. Make sure you pass enablejsapi: 1 to the playerVars props object This event is similar to onPlaybackQualityChange event from Youtube API documentation.
player:playbackratechange	This event fires whenever the video playback rate changes. Make sure you pass enablejsapi: 1 to the playerVars props object This event is similar to onPlaybackRateChange event from Youtube API documentation.
player:error	This event fires if an error occurs in the player. Make sure you pass enablejsapi: 1 to the playerVars props object This event is similar to onError event from Youtube API documentation.
player:apichange	This event is fired to indicate that the player has loaded (or unloaded) a module with exposed API methods. Make sure you pass enablejsapi: 1 to the playerVars props object This event is similar to onApiChange event from Youtube API documentation.

FAQ 🗯️

How to get access to player API?

You need to pass enablejsapi: 1 to the playerVars props object. Then subscribe on player:ready event.

  <template>
    <vue-tube @player:ready="onPlayerReady"></vue-tube>
  </template>

  <script>
    export default {
      data() {
        return {
          playerInstance: null,
        }
      },
      
      methods: {
        onPlayerReady(event) {
          this.playerInstance = event.target
        }
      }
    }
  </script>

Now you have a player instance in the playerInstance. You can do whatever you want with video.

this.playerInstance.playVideo(), this.playerInstance.pauseVideo() etc. All methods can be found here.

How to use my play button?

You can pass your button through the icon slot.

  <template>
    <vue-tube>
      <template #icon>
        <svg
          xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
          width="48"
          height="48"
          viewBox="0 0 24 24"
          aria-hidden="true"
          focusable="false"
        >
          <path
            fill="#fff"
            d="M12 2c5.514 0 10 4.486 10 10s-4.486 10-10 10-10-4.486-10-10 4.486-10 10-10zm0-2c-6.627 0-12 5.373-12 12s5.373 12 12 12 12-5.373 12-12-5.373-12-12-12zm-3 17v-10l9 5.146-9 4.854z"
          />
        </svg>
      </template>
    </vue-tube>
  </template>

How to use my thumbnail?

You can pass your thumbnail through the thumbnail slot.

  <template>
    <vue-tube>
      <template #thumbnail>
        <img src="#" alt="">
      </template>
    </vue-tube>
  </template>

Browsers support 🌎

IE / Edge	Firefox	Chrome	Safari	iOS Safari	Samsung	Opera	Yandex
IE11, Edge 80	60+	60+	10+	10+	12+	50+	14.4+

License 📄

MIT

Inspiration 👏

Vuetube is a vue component version of the popular package lite-youtube-embed.

Support the project ⭐

If you feel awesome and want to support me in a small way, please consider starring and sharing the repo!

Contributing 🎉

Found a bug? Missing a specific feature? Your contributions are always welcome! Please have a look at the contribution guidelines first.

Contributors ❤️

Alexey Istomin ️️️️♿️ ⚠️ 💻 🤔