How may i change the locked title of a YT video on my site?

A video has a locked title.
I’m using Wix Studio Editor

What are you trying to achieve:
I’d like to link it to my site because I provided the VO for it but the title on TY is not professional or helpful to listeners or viewers
What have you already tried:
I don’t know what to try.

Additional information:
Is there a workaround for changing a locked title on a YT video that is not my source material?

So this was really interesting to look into since if you’re embedding the website on your page, all of the metadata like the title, thumbnail, etc is pulled from the source so you can’t edit it. It seems that Youtube had the option to disable information but that was removed a while ago so if you want to hide it, you need to find some ways to do either hide it or adjust the iframe.

I was able to find some ways to do it with CSS but then I learned that per Youtube’s Terms of Service for their APIs while looking at the embedded feature that they don’t allow frames, overlays or any objects from obscuring or covering the controls so while my solutions don’t necessarily do that, one solution disable controls which then breaks the ToS.

In this case, I might suggest if you have permission to use it, you could download it and add it to your site where you could control the title and description.

P.S. Pretty cool to learn of your work. :grinning_face:

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Rob, THANKS. Most of what you said I had to look up for definitions, but your final paragraph has inspired me to connect with my end user- not my client- and call to find out who has control and if I might get a couple of their commercials as files to upload directly, thereby bypassing YT entirely. That, my friend, is OLD SCHOOL and I embrace that person to person direct connection.
Gracias hombre!

:laughing: No worries as I myself was trying to see and asking “is this possible?” and learned a few things too like that Youtube even has this documentation out there.

Like I mentioned I did find some solutions for it but they don’t look as nice and again, while I doubt Youtube might find out, I’d rather err on the side of caution and just have the original files to work with.

I’ll look forward to the eventual sharing of of the site within the forum. :oncoming_fist:

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