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Created May 4, 2015 22:17
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Example of the various YouTube url formats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wtIMTCHWuI
http://www.youtube.com/v/-wtIMTCHWuI?version=3&autohide=1
http://youtu.be/-wtIMTCHWuI
http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch?v%3D-wtIMTCHWuI&format=json
http://s.ytimg.com/yt/favicon-wtIMTCHWuI.ico
http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/-wtIMTCHWuI/hqdefault.jpg
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http://www.youtube.com/v/-wtIMTCHWuI?version=3 links don't seem to work at all any more. I'm not sure when YouTube broke them.

These day the URL YouTube suggests when you click Share > Embed in Desktop is https://www.youtube.com/embed/-wtIMTCHWuI , part of

<iframe width="560" height="315"
    src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-wtIMTCHWuI" frameborder="0"
    allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"
    allowfullscreen></iframe>

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