# \[Pro\] Youtube action won't play video

**URL:** <https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-youtube-action-wont-play-video/23371>\
**Category:** Freeway\
**Created:** [May 25, 2016, 9:55am UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-youtube-action-wont-play-video/23371 "2016-05-25T09:55:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![neil.west1](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@neil.west1](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/neil.west1)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 9:55am UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-youtube-action-wont-play-video/23371/1 "2016-05-25T09:55:49Z")

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Just added the youtube action to an old site but the video keeps erroring. I’ve tried it on two computers and an iPad so I know it’s not the browser. The video also plays fine in youtube itself.

I’ve used V2.0.3 which appears to be the latest, and set it to iframe but it won’t work. If I set it to Flash (which won’t work on my Mac anyway) the video disappears altogether.

Any ideas what I’ve done wrong?

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**Author:** ![neil.west1](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@neil.west1](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/neil.west1)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-youtube-action-wont-play-video/23371/2 "2016-05-25T13:41:54Z")

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Scratch that question, I searched around and discovered that it’s not the whole URL that needs inserting into the action dialogue -it’s just the characters after the ‘=’.

It now works

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