Adding a Youtube Live Stream

How to add a Youtube Live Stream to your app

A live stream is a very popular mechanism for broadcasting meetings and events, but there is a challenge for repeating events, that is to determine a static link to connect your users to rather than having to send out a new link each time you run the event.

There is an article available here from TechSwift which provides the instructions on how to do it:
​​https://techswift.org/2020/09/30/how-to-get-a-permanent-link-for-a-youtube-livestream/

Essentially, you need to get your Channel ID.

You can then add that channel ID into this link
For instance, with a channel ID of UCC3kjpFOUh64-0Og52YLzAQ

You will have a link like this:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC3kjpFOUh64-0Og52YLzAQ/live

Note the /live on the end.

This link will take you to the whole youtube page for your live link, including the comments etc. This isnt an ideal experience when using a phone for livestreaming, you just want the video.

So you can use this instead:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=UCC3kjpFOUh64-0Og52YLzAQ

This is just the video stream.

Once the stream has started, the user can watch and listen, pause,etc. They can also cast it to an Apple AirPlay if available.