youtube.py

from IPython.core.display import display

class YouTubeVideo(object):
    """Class for embedding a YouTube Video in an IPython session, based on its video id.
    
    e.g. to embed the video on this page:
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foo
    
    you would do:
    
    vid = YouTubeVideo("foo")
    display(vid)
    """
    
    def __init__(self, id, width=400, height=300):
        self.id = id
        self.width = width
        self.height = height
    
    def _repr_html_(self):
        """return YouTube embed iframe for this video id"""
        return """
            <iframe 
                width="%i" 
                height="%i" 
                src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/%s" 
                frameborder="0" 
                allowfullscreen
            ></iframe>
        """%(self.width, self.height, self.id)


vid = YouTubeVideo("dQw4w9WgXcQ")
display(vid)