You get related videos in two places: at the end of the video with the grid, and at the bottom of the video while paused. I've figured out a way to remove them at the end and make the ones at the bottom at least tolerable for most businesses.
1. Remove related videos at the end of a video
IFrame Player API: Events
To avoid showing related videos at the end of a video, I just stopped the video so it returned to showing the thumbnail and play button:
var player = new YT.Player('player', {
height: '390',
width: '640',
events: {
'onStateChange': function(event){
switch(event.data){
// Stop the video on ending so recommended videos don't pop up
case 0: // ended
player.stopVideo();
break;
case -1: // unstarted
case 1: // playing
case 2: // paused
case 3: // buffering
case 5: // video cued
default:
break;
}
}
}
});
You could also replace player.stopVideo();
with any other code you want to run.
2. Making related videos at the bottom of a video only show your videos
IFrame Player API: YouTube Embedded Players and Player Parameters
rel=0
no longer avoids showing any related videos; now, it will still show related videos, but at least they'll only be from your channel. This changed sometime around September 25, 2018 (documentation).
By setting playerVars
in YT.Player, we can at least have related videos only show our channel's videos. The documentation isn't clear that you have to have playerVars
set up as an object, but you can set it up like so:
var player = new YT.Player('player', {
...
playerVars:{
rel: 0
modestbranding: 1, // If you're trying to remove branding I figure this is helpful to mention as well; removes the YouTube logo from the bottom controls of the player
// color: 'white', // Can't have this and modestbranding active simultaneously (just a note in case you run into this)
},
...
});
2A. Potential way to remove related videos from bottom
I may look more into it if I have the time, but here's where an answer may lie:
We can easily access the iframe object but we can't do anything with it: IFrame Player API: Accessing and modifying DOM nodes. It appears that because we'd be editing an iframe from YouTube there are security concerns (regardless of what we'd actually be doing). Ideally I could just remove the "More videos" text with player.getIframe().contentWindow.document.querySelector('.ytp-pause-overlay.ytp-scroll-min').remove()
, but when I run player.getIframe().contentWindow.document
I get an error SecurityError: Permission denied to access property "document" on cross-origin object
.
But playerVars
also has an origin
value that may let us access the iframe's object anyway:
var player = new YT.Player('player', {
...
playerVars:{
origin: 'https://mywebsite.com'
},
...
});
It's not working with localhost, but that may be a Chromium and Firefox thing. Perhaps this is a legitimate option on a live site; I'll update this post when/if I try that to let you know if I succeed.