thread YouTube video shows as private in Payments Troubleshooting

YouTube video shows as private

HiTeresa — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 09:47:44 GMT

Hello all, I was able to put one YouTube video into my Weebly page successfully. Unfortunately, when I try to put another one on my page, I get a message that it can't show the video because it is private. On YouTube, the video is public. I have tried using the share link and the URL with the same result. Any advice is appreciated!

Re: YouTube video shows as private

JJ_ — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:32:44 GMT

Hey there @HiTeresa I want to welcome you to the Seller Community!

I am sorry to hear that you're having trouble with embedding a YouTube video on your Square Online Site. I would like to take a closer look at this for you. Can you share your website's URL(domain) and the link to the YouTube video that is giving you a hard time?

I will keep an eye out for your reply.

Re: YouTube video shows as private

robot_man — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 05:50:00 GMT

It's happening to me too.. even though I have several that work from previous edits. Now I cannpot add any new videos without the "private" message... even though they are all public on Youtube.

Re: YouTube video shows as private

plooyen — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 02:33:38 GMT

Are you trying to upload YT shorts?
I had the same issue and discovered that the YT widget does not work for Shorts.
Instead, do a Embed code and get the code from the option in YT

Re: YouTube video shows as private

robot_man — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 22:43:48 GMT

Thanks for the tip! I gave it a go, but to no avail.
Definitely a "shorts" issue.

This is the url of an old short that works on weebly:

https://youtu.be/8alNAIn2Rog

But it seems they now have a "Shorts" directory because this sort of URL doesn't work in weebly:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pkZ_Myz7Vco

I tried copying the first (working) HTML embedded code:

But no matter how I edit it with the newer short URL, it still doesn't work in weebly.

I replaced "https://www.youtube.com/embed/tA3pKhuSILM"

with

https://www.youtube.com/embed/pkZ_Myz7Vco

and

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/embed/pkZ_Myz7Vco

and

https://www.youtube.com/embed/shorts/pkZ_Myz7Vco

But all had error messages. Any advice?