[SOLVED] YT is not defined - Uncaught ReferenceError: [youtube api]

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Posted 1st October 2018, 5:43 am

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#5034 (In Topic #1127)

ironfeather

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Hello,

When logged in as admin on my site I kept getting a friendly nag error for admins about

YT is not defined - Uncaught ReferenceError: [youtube api]

I have a youtube video embedded on my start page…. Everything worked ok but to fix the error I added:

<script src="https://www.youtube.com/player_api"></script>

into the HEAD template

and now no error :)

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Posted 1st October 2018, 7:34 am

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#5035

ironfeather

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update:

while no error pops up, i have a new one in the browser console:

Error("The YouTube player is not attached to the DOM.")

the video still works and not sure if i should worry about this, or remove my script from the HEAD….

everything works & looks good either way

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Posted 1st October 2018, 2:21 pm

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#5036

Chris Graham

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Assuming the embed is a Composr YouTube media embed, that's strange. The JS code relating to the YouTube player is only called once the YT player's JavaScript is loaded. Maybe there's some weird fringe situation like it loading across different frames or deloading when initialised in a tooltip - as I doubt the YouTube video from your home page would show on the dashboard except in some kind of content preview fashion.

Here's a speculative fix:
https://github.com/ocproducts/composr/commit/434999ae0608f8dfc055cf896b615b670a185d36

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