How do I make my youtube page private?

How can I make links on my own page that work like deep links interacting with an embedded youtube/vimeo on that same page?

• Does anyone know about a technique to make links on a website function as deep links to an embedded vimeo/youtube video on that same page? That way one could include video's in a blog post or similar, and reference certain portions of the video through deep linked time codes. I suspect one would need some javascript magic to do this. On another note, I wish I had the "tagging might" to be able to introduce the tags deep-linking and vimeo.

• Answer:

  You can embed deep-linked YouTube videos by using the 'start' attribute to make playback start at a specific time, like this: <iframe id="video" width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3CR5y8qZf0Y?start=20" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> You could modify the start time using JavaScript and jQuery, like this: jQuery function setTheTime(theTime) { var videoURL = $('iframe#video').attr('src'); videoURL = videoURL.replace(/=.+/, "="+theTime+"&autoplay=1"); $('iframe#video').attr('src',videoURL); } $('.time').click(function() { var newTime = $(this).attr('href').replace('#',''); setTheTime(newTime); }); HTML <p>Watch this video from <a href="#20" class="time">20 seconds</a> or from <a href="#40" class="time">40 seconds.</a></p><br/><br/> <iframe id="video" width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3CR5y8qZf0Y?start=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen> </iframe> Demo Here's a http://jsfiddle.net/cPyZ9/4/ (Click the '20 seconds' and '40 seconds' links in the 'Result' frame on the bottom right to see it working.) Notes Note that I modified the default YouTube embed code to add ?start=0 to the src and the id="video" attribute so we can target that iframe with jQuery. Once you've done that, all links on the page using the <a href="#20" class="time">link text here</a> format will modify the start time and autoplay the video. Not sure if this is possible with Vimeo, as I'm not as familiar with their embed code.