@barcia/astro-youtube v1.0.0-beta.2

Astro YouTube Component

A YouTube component for Astro with type safety and support for YouTube Player Parameters. Is a wrapper of lite-youtube-embed with some improvements.

• Type safety.
• Lightweight and minimalistic.
• Can be used with url or id of the YouTube video.
• Support for custom title.
• Support for official YouTube Player Parameters with type safety.
• By default, uses the best available cover resolution.
• By default, sets equal borders radius of official YouTube website (can be disabled).
• Set aspect ratio to 16/9 by default.
• Wrapper of lite-youtube-embed.
  • approximately 224x faster
  • lite-youtube uses youtube-nocookie.com instead of youtube.com in order to be more privacy friendly

Usage

Import the component and use with the url prop or the id prop:

import YouTube from "@barcia/astro-youtube";

<YouTube url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdBZY2fkU-0" />

<!-- or -->

<YouTube id="QdBZY2fkU-0" />

Add the title prop to set the title of the video.

<YouTube url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdBZY2fkU-0" title="GTA 6 Trailer" />

Add any YouTube Player Parameters to the component, listed here and with type safety.

<YouTube url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdBZY2fkU-0" autoplay="1" />

Props

Component related

YouTube Player Parameters

See the Official YouTube Player Parameters for check all available parameters.

Acknowledgments

• lite-youtube-embed by Paul Irish
• eleventy-plugin-youtube-embed

Author

• https://barcia.dev
• https://github.com/barcia
• https://bsky.app/profile/barcia.dev

License

MIT License.