diff --git a/types/react-youtube/index.d.ts b/types/react-youtube/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for react-youtube 7.4
+// Project: https://github.com/troybetz/react-youtube
+// Definitions by: kgtkr <https://github.com/kgtkr>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 2.3
+
+import * as React from "react";
+export default class YouTube extends React.Component<{
+    videoId?: string,
+    id?: string,
+    className?: string,
+    opts?: {
+        height?: string,
+        width?: string,
+        playerVars?: {
+            autoplay?: 0 | 1,
+            cc_load_policy?: 1,
+            color?: 'red' | 'white',
+            controls?: 0 | 1 | 2,
+            disablekb?: 0 | 1,
+            enablejsapi?: 0 | 1,
+            end?: number,
+            fs?: 0 | 1,
+            hl?: string,
+            iv_load_policy?: 1 | 3,
+            list?: string,
+            listType?: 'playlist' | 'search' | 'user_uploads',
+            loop?: 0 | 1,
+            modestbranding?: 1,
+            origin?: string,
+            playlist?: string,
+            playsinline?: 0 | 1,
+            rel?: 0 | 1,
+            showinfo?: 0 | 1,
+            start?: number
+        }
+    },
+    onReady?(event: { target: any }): void,
+    onError?(event: { target: any, data: number }): void,
+    onPlay?(event: { target: any, data: number }): void,
+    onPause?(event: { target: any, data: number }): void,
+    onEnd?(event: { target: any, data: number }): void,
+    onStateChange?(event: { target: any, data: number }): void,
+    onPlaybackRateChange?(event: { target: any, data: number }): void,
+    onPlaybackQualityChange?(event: { target: any, data: string }): void,
+}> {
+}
diff --git a/types/react-youtube/react-youtube-tests.tsx b/types/react-youtube/react-youtube-tests.tsx
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+import * as React from "react";
+import YouTube from 'react-youtube';
+
+// https://github.com/troybetz/react-youtube
+class Example extends React.Component {
+    render() {
+        const opts = {
+            height: '390',
+            width: '640',
+            playerVars: { // https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters
+                autoplay: 1 as 1
+            }
+        };
+
+        return (
+            <YouTube
+                videoId="2g811Eo7K8U"
+                opts={opts}
+                onReady={this._onReady}
+            />
+        );
+    }
+
+    _onReady(event: { target: any }) {
+        // access to player in all event handlers via event.target
+        event.target.pauseVideo();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/types/react-youtube/tsconfig.json b/types/react-youtube/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6",
+            "dom"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "jsx": "react",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "react-youtube-tests.tsx"
+    ]
+}
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diff --git a/types/react-youtube/tslint.json b/types/react-youtube/tslint.json
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+{
+    "extends": "dtslint/dt.json"
+}
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