How to display YouTube videos as texture in A-Frame?

Question

I want to take a YouTube URL and put it in an A-Frame scene as a video texture. Like <a-video src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"> . Is this possible for https://aframe.io ?

Answer 1

With some manual effort, you can:

• YouTube proxies as textures such as https://github.com/cvan/webvr360 / https://www.dropbox.com/s/298brayuh24et13/webvr360.mp4?dl=0
• Download them locally to service the service.

Please note that this is likely to be contrary to their terms of service.