How to embed a private video on your blog

Posted on February 4, 2009

Whoops! You can't view a private video!

Embed videos that won’t be indexed by Google or viewable by the public.

You might want to create a video and put it on your website, but you don’t want the rest of the world to find it via search engines or YouTube.

You may have a blog, and you want to give a few people access to a video that no one else will be able to watch.

Here’s a protected video embedding solution:

  1. Upload your video to Viddler.com
  2. Click Edit Sharing Options
    Edit Sharing Options
  3. Give the video privacy setting “Just You.” This prevents anyone else from seeing your video.
  4. Click Enable next to Secret URL
    Secret URL
  5. Copy the Secret URL code
  6. Click Embed This
    Embed This
  7. Choose your player type and size options
    Video embed options
  8. Copy and paste the embed code from your video into your blog

    Here’s the vital part:

  9. Find the “secreturl” part of your Secret URL code from Step 5.
    http://www.viddler.com/explore/your-username/videos/1/?secreturl=123456789
  10. Edit your Embed This code from Step 8
    • You’re going to be adding “0/yoursecretcode” to the end of two parts of the embed code. The added parts are shown in bold below. This allows your private video to be embedded publicly. Be sure to update the code for  both the movie PARAM and the EMBED.
    • <object classid="clsid: D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="437" height="370" id="viddler_aaa2e747"><param name="movie" value="http://www.viddler.com/player/aaa1a232/0/123456789" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed src="http://www.viddler.com/player/aaa1a232/0/123456789" width="437" height="370" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" name="viddler_aaa2e747" ></embed></object>
  11. That should be it! Save your post and you’re done.

Thanks goes to Colin Devroe from the Viddler.com staff for presenting his solution. I wanted to share this with the world, because it’s hard to find a protected video solution that works well. They say it doesn’t work anymore, but I have tried it, and it does. Hush, hush!

What’s your solution for private, embedded vidoes?

I wanted to use Vimeo or YouTube, but their solutions didn’t really work for me. Do you use or know of any other, better options?

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  • http://www.meandthree.com Brett

    I can’t get it to work, I’ve been trying for weeks to get embedded content to work that is set to private..I’ve been over it and over it, it just keeps telling me its a private video..

  • http://www.meandthree.com Brett

    Got it..duh never mind..sorry

  • Antonio

    Why don’t you try Fliggo.com?… It’s like “private Youtube”. It’s easier.

  • Ford

    thanks! i was seraching all over for precisely this. worked!!

  • Craig

    Thanks! That works awesome :)

  • Jon

    Thank you so much for this tip. It’s exactly what I was looking for, and it works great!

  • http://www.GuitarHangout.com Tom Boyd

    Thanks! This worked a treat :-)

  • jimicohen

    I’ve just tried this and I can’t get the TML code to show in my post. I paste it in and when I publish/update post it just disappears so I can’t see the code, or the video on my blog. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong???

  • jimicohen

    Thanks Zack,
    I’ll check the tut and see how I get on.
    Appreciate your help and quick response! :)

  • http://www.MiniSiteSecretsRevealed.com Dan Kelly

    Looks like this function is no longer supported in the free version of Viddler. :-(

    http://www.viddler.com/groups/faq/discuss/211

    (See “sandieman (staff)” comment at bottom.)

    You have to pay a minimum of $100/mo now to get this functionality. That’s redonkulous!

    How sad!

    I looked into Vimeo, but even the Plus version bans ANY commercial messages.

    HOW SHORT SIGHTED!

  • omar

    I noticed the viddler “hack” stopped working. Has anyone found another viable solution?

  • http://www.novavizia.com/ Todor Christov

    But it still works with me – I have embedded a video today via secure link and I can see the video in my blog, at the same time the Privacy option is “Just You”.

  • http://www.seodenver.com Zack Katz

    I’ve heard it still works. Any new reports?

  • Joe

    Hi

    I just tested this out and it worked for me. Thanks so much for this tut, just what the doctor ordered :)

    joe

  • Matt

    Thanks Zack! This worked for me too. Huge problem solved!

  • Fcode

    This feature is great UNTIL somebody clicks on the video itself, then whoops! it trys to redirect me to viddler and i get a “this video it not viewable…”
    absolute shat

  • http://sean808080.com sean808080

    this worked for me and is awesome! thanks and happy new year!

  • john

    Excellent instructions. Thanks so much!

  • http://marissabracke.com Marissa Bracke

    Thanks for this how-to. I just used it & it works beautifully!

  • RACHEL

    do u know what is “yishar koach”?
    thanks! it is great!
    but i have 1 problem – maybe u can solve it?
    when i click “edit sharig option” then i topens under the video – hidden under and then i cannot do nothing! how can i view it above the frame of the video? thanks!

    • http://www.katzwebservices.com Zack Katz

      I’m afraid I don’t know the answer to that question…

  • AS

    Works for me… thnx!

  • http://www.cosmetic-surgery-losangeles.com/ Dr Yoho

    Thank you we have some video’s that are in house for client review only.
    This saves us time making dvds and halts any security issue.

  • http://www.yardstickservices.com Kevin McLeod

    This is a great article.  It solved a challenge I had with a client who had a video that they wanted on their site but not shared with the masses via social media. Hosting an FLV file directly on their webhost wasn’t working too well in terms of performance.  This solved it beautifully.
    Thank you!

  • Matt

    worked for me, thanks!

  • http://www.MikesRoadTrip.com Mike’s Road Trip

    Does anyone know if Viddler changed this feature/option? Doesn’t seem to be working for me and I noticed this post is a bit old.

    Thanks,
    Mike

  • http://www.facebook.com/rehansajid08 Rehan Sajid

    great share……worked a treat.

  • http://www.seodenver.com Zack Katz

    I like the dofollow profiles on Viddler, don’t you?

  • http://www.seodenver.com Zack Katz

    Are you on WordPress.com hosted site? If not, what platform? If so, WordPress strips lots of stuff from their code to preserve security. That’s probably it.

  • jimicohen

    Hi Zack,
    Yes, Im on a WordPress.com free account. I’m using Firefox 3 browser, but I wouldn’t have thought that would be a problem. I just found a blog entry saying that WordPress blocks Flash content, so maybe that is it? I’ve even tried disabling the Visual editor and pasting the code in the HTML editor but it still disappears when I Publish. What do you think it could be?

  • http://www.seodenver.com Zack Katz

    Check out this tutorial on WordPress.com – If this doesn’t work, then nothing will, because as you said, WordPress.com strips Flash content.

  • http://www.seodenver.com Zack Katz

    That does seem to be short-sighted of them. It’s too bad this stopped working; they had said that it would have stopped working about a year ago, though…Well, time to use a different service instead!

  • http://www.rockstarsecrettolife.com Dr. Dan

    it still works. you just have to get the embed code from the video you made private. then add 0/yoursecretcode twice in the embed code. I had been using the code from an old embed code I had and it wasnt working. But got it working now on my wordpress hosted on hostgator site. the video is on the link on my name above.