How to autoplay embedded Facebook videos?

Question

This page shows how to create the embed code for any Facebook video to embed them in external websites.

Is there a way to start the playback automatically on page lo

Answer 1

For Youtube, add &autoplay=1 at the end of the URL used to autoplay the video. For example:

If the URL to get to the video is:

http://www.youtube.com/v/xxx

The autoplay URL is:

http://www.youtube.com/v/xxx&autoplay=1

The above works for Youtube, but Facebook is a little different:

In the embed portion of the code to autoplay the video on your site add the following parameter:

This method works on other sites as well, mostly those that use a Flash-based video player.