# \#youtube

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## [Can I use the crawler to index my YouTube videos?](https://community.swiftype.com/t/can-i-use-the-crawler-to-index-my-youtube-videos/331)

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**Author:** [@system](https://community.swiftype.com/u/system)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 16, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.swiftype.com/t/can-i-use-the-crawler-to-index-my-youtube-videos/331 "2017-03-16T18:49:47Z")

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Yes! The best method for indexing your YouTube videos (or other streaming video content) is to have each video embedded within their own pages on your site. Swiftype will not crawl and index the actual video file embedd…