It baffles me that there is no option to embed a YouTube video in a Google Doc.

But why tho.

@D--M because I'm sending a Google Doc to someone with instructions for a project and I need to embed a YouTube video.

what baffles me more is that you can't view the non printing characters in gdocs.

your youtube problem is easy solvable, make a screenshot of the youtube video player add the picture to the document and link it to the video.

@heyheni but I shouldn't have to take a screenshot and link it, it's goddamn 2018. Maybe that solution is acceptable in a GitHub readme file but Google Docs is supposed to be a consumer facing product, not something I need to use hacky work arounds on. Hell even Microsoft Word 2013 supports embedding YouTube videos, and YouTube isn't even their own fucking product.

@DuckyMcDuckFace

I hate when people embed shit into my word documents.

I want to find them, then spoon their eyes out with a shovel.

Embed the document in the video then send him the video.

@Pavr 😄

Why do I get the feeling this is all so you can print off a YouTube video for your grandson?

@Arro frame by frame?

Use Google Slides. It embedded videos (even non-YT ones) quite nicely.

You can use as many slides as you want for the rest of the instructions or just one.