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stuartmcgarrity
Brass Contributor
Oct 24, 2022

Embed SharePoint Video on External Sites

Is it possible to embed a Stream on SharePoint video on an external/public site?

 

The technique described in this article, of updating the embed code with a link you set to public, did not work for me:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedrive-embed-links-dont-allow-public-viewing/251ddb80-467e-44f7-b7a8-3182e19bf671

 

The embed code I got was very different from the one in the article. 

  • Marc Mroz's avatar
    Marc Mroz
    Oct 26, 2022
    We don't support anyone public anonymous embed codes for videos. (Not sure if that old workaround works for other file types?) We only support direct anyone links.
  • jmd1980's avatar
    jmd1980
    Brass Contributor
    Yeah I just spent the day trying to figure this out as well. Just so annoying I can create anonymous links. I can create embed links. But I can't put the two together. Like one of the other comments, I was hoping to host some of our LMS videos in SharePoint since some of the content is externally facing. Now we'll have to stand up and pay for a separate streaming platform (Vimeo or something) which is just frustrating. This really needs to be a feature.
  • rozhall's avatar
    rozhall
    Copper Contributor
    This is exactly what we're trying to do at our institution. So much of our video guides are embedded on our help site, which is externally facing. Having videos hidden behind links just looks old and uninviting and means that users are continuously being taken away from our help materials to another tab with the video. The user experience is very poor. I think this feature (share to anyone via embed code) should be added. MS embed videos on their help sites and I want to keep everything central rather than making copies to YouTube etc. Expecially when the help sites I'm building atm are about how we need them to use Stream for all of their teaching materials.
  • The article is a couple years old so doesn't reflect the recent new feature for Embed for videos stored in SharePoint/OneDrive.

    For an external site use case, for sure the "anyone with the link" would need to be set on the video - or otherwise it won't work. Assuming "anyone with the link" is available. I know that gets disabled at the tenant level in many orgs.
    • stuartmcgarrity's avatar
      stuartmcgarrity
      Brass Contributor
      Hi Kevin,

      The "Anyone with the link" option is available. I've tried updating the embed code with it, but to no avail.
      • Marc Mroz's avatar
        Marc Mroz
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        We don't support anyone public anonymous embed codes for videos. (Not sure if that old workaround works for other file types?) We only support direct anyone links.

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