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YouTube broke embed links recently and didn't update their docs

by zahlman on 10/25/25, 4:07 PM with 3 comments

• by zahlman on 10/25/25, 4:07 PM

  I was reviewing one of my blog articles from early this year (https://zahlman.github.io/posts/2025/02/28/python-packaging-...) and I noticed that the YouTube embed (for a classic Homestar Runner episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az49aNuYeJs) was now showing an error message ("Error 153 Video player configuration error", with a link to the actual video). I tried the actual */embed/* link manually in a new tab and saw the same error.

  So I went to look up the documentation, under the assumption that they'd changed how this works... but nothing has changed. The same process is described for getting "embed" HTML, and you can still follow that process and get that HTML... and copy and paste it into a new .html file... and open it in a web browser... and get the same Error 153. Which also happens for the demo embedded video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJIrF4YjHfQ) in the documentation itself.