# Youtube Playlist AutoPlay

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-playlist-autoplay/525596>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 19, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-playlist-autoplay/525596 "2010-01-19T19:08:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Logical\_Phallacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Logical\_Phallacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logical_Phallacy)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-playlist-autoplay/525596/1 "2010-01-19T19:08:19Z")

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I’d like the embedded playlist on my charity’s website ([see here](http://tinyurl.com/yg59sfe)) to autoplay when a visitor opens the site. I know that one used to be able to append &autoplay=1 to an individual video to make it do this, but I can’t figure it out for a playlist. The code I’m currently using is below.

\<object align=right width=“480” height=“385”\>\<param name=“movie” value=“[http://www.youtube.com/p/63DCB64FE8847BDE&hl=en\_US&fs=1](http://www.youtube.com/p/63DCB64FE8847BDE&hl=en_US&fs=1)”\>\</param\>\<param name=“allowFullScreen” value=“true”\>\</param\>\<param name=“allowscriptaccess” value=“always”\>\</param\>\<embed src=“[http://www.youtube.com/p/63DCB64FE8847BDE&hl=en\_US&fs=1](http://www.youtube.com/p/63DCB64FE8847BDE&hl=en_US&fs=1)” type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” width=“480” height=“385” allowscriptaccess=“always” allowfullscreen=“true”\>\</embed\>\</object\>

**This is time sensitive because we have a press release going out to 300 journalists very shortly so any solutions would be most appreciated indeed**

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**Author:** ![Logical\_Phallacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Logical\_Phallacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logical_Phallacy)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-playlist-autoplay/525596/2 "2010-01-20T03:58:25Z")

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bump

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**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-playlist-autoplay/525596/3 "2010-01-20T05:06:20Z")

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> [@Logical\_Phallacy](#):
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> I’d like the embedded playlist on my charity’s website ([see here](http://tinyurl.com/yg59sfe)) to autoplay when a visitor opens the site.

I hate sites that do this. It would certainly make me find another charity if I go to a website and it starts playing video at me.