How To Embed Video Uploaded To Google Photos On Your Website Or Blog

By ahlikom 17 Mar, 2020

Google Photos lets you lot easily dorsum upward your photos together with videos, together with portion them to Google+, Facebook, Twitter or to anyone who has the link. But sometimes you lot desire to post your videos on your weblog or website.

You can import your Google Photos videos to the YouTube channel associated alongside your account, hence embed the YouTube video. But earlier you lot create that showtime consider YouTube's content policies - if your video doesn't comply, don't import it!

So how tin you lot embed your Google Photos video on your ain website without uploading it to YouTube? Google does non offering a take away agency to create that, precisely you lot tin access your Google Photos video inwards Google Drive and embed it from there.

Note: this exclusively plant to embed your ain Google Photos videos or videos shared alongside you lot via Google Drive. As of July 10, 2019, Google Photos volition no longer automatically sync photos together with videos alongside Google Drive. Any images that were synced from Google Photos earlier that appointment volition stay inwards Drive. After that date, you lot volition convey to upload your videos to Google Drive directly.

How to embed a Google Photos video on your weblog or website

Upload or video upload limitations)
OR upload your videos to Google Drive

Sign inwards to Google Drive (drive.google.com) on your desktop calculator alongside the same e-mail you lot purpose to sign inwards to Google Photos

Find the video you lot desire to embed

Set who tin encounter your video: Click the three dot "More Actions" icon at exceed right, together with hence Share. . You tin brand the video visible to the Public or Anyone alongside the link in Advanced settings.

Open the video inwards a novel window: Click the 3 dot More actions carte du jour icon at exceed right, together with from the carte du jour select Open inwards novel window

Find the Embed code: When the video has opened inwards its ain window click the three dot More actions icon at exceed right, hence pick out Embed item...

Copy the embed code

Paste the embed code into the HTML of your website or blog

Read on for detailed instructions alongside screenshots

1. Upload or backup your video to Google Photos

Videos tin survive upward to 10GB, together with videos uploaded every bit High Quality will survive reduced to 1080p if higher resolution (see video upload limitations).

Note: if you lot desire to embed a Movie created inwards the Google Photos app you must download the video, hence re-upload the video to Google Photos or Google Drive.

How to download - hence upload - a Google Photos film creation

i. Find your film creation inwards Google Photos on desktop (photos.google.com/search/_tv_ shows all videos)

ii. Click the video hence it opens total page

iii. Click the three dot carte du jour icon at exceed right

iv. Select "Download video"

v. Once the video is downloaded you lot tin hence upload it to Google Drive (or to Google Photos again).

Note: if you lot convey backed upward or take away uploaded your video to Google Drive already, hence you lot create non require to download together with upload again.

2. Sign inwards to Google Drive (drive.google.com) on your desktop computer

Be certain to sign inwards alongside the same e-mail you lot purpose to sign inwards to Google Photos.

3. Find the video you lot desire to portion together with click it.

Google Photos photos together with images are automatically accessible inwards Google Drive.

You tin easily detect all your videos that are inwards your Drive account, whether they were uploaded via Google Photos or take away to Drive.

4. Set who tin encounter your video.

The video volition exclusively be visible to the people you lot convey shared it with. If you lot desire Earth to survive able to encounter your video, you lot tin set that every bit well:

i. Click the 3 dot More Actions carte du jour icon at exceed right, hence click Share

ii. Click Advanced

iii. Next to Private - exclusively you lot tin access click Change

iv. Select On - Public on the spider web or Anyone alongside the link (either should move to sentiment the embeded video on your website or blog)

v. Click Save

vi. Click Done

Now anyone should survive able to sentiment your video.

5. Open the video inwards a novel window

Click the three dot More Actions icon at exceed right, together with from the carte du jour pick out Open inwards novel window

This volition opened upward the video inwards its ain tab.

6. Find the embed code

When the video has opened inwards its ain window click the 3 dot More actions icon

Select Embed item...

7. Copy the embed code

Highlight the embed code to re-create it.

8. Paste the embed code on your website or inwards a weblog post

Note that if you lot are embedding your video inwards a Blogger weblog post, you lot should survive certain you lot convey the weblog post editor to HTML mode, non Compose mode when you lot glue inwards the embed code.

And hither you lot convey it!

Note that movies created inwards Google Photos are not usually automatically visible inwards Google Drive - I uploaded this video to my Google Photos directly. See inwards a higher house for instructions for how to create that.

Updated Apr 2017
Updated July 2018 (Google Photos are no longer on the carte du jour inwards Google Drive)