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Hi I am using youtube iframe embed API. I want to track seek video event by user. Please help me how can I track this.
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There is no simple way to track the event with the api alone.
What you could to is running a javascript function in interval and check if the time difference measured is different from the one expecting
Here is an example code :
<html>
<body>
<div id="player"></div>
<script>
var tag = document.createElement('script');
tag.src = "https://www.youtube.com/iframe_api";
var firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore(tag, firstScriptTag);
var player;
function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady() {
console.log("ready");
player = new YT.Player('player', {
height: '390',
width: '640',
videoId: 'cRmNPE0HwE8',
events: {
'onReady': onPlayerReady,
'onStateChange': onPlayerStateChange
}
});
//console.log(player);
}
function onPlayerReady(event) {
event.target.playVideo();
/// Time tracking starting here
var lastTime = -1;
var interval = 1000;
var checkPlayerTime = function () {
if (lastTime != -1) {
if(player.getPlayerState() == YT.PlayerState.PLAYING ) {
var t = player.getCurrentTime();
//console.log(Math.abs(t - lastTime -1));
///expecting 1 second interval , with 500 ms margin
if (Math.abs(t - lastTime - 1) > 0.5) {
// there was a seek occuring
console.log("seek"); /// fire your event here !
}
}
}
lastTime = player.getCurrentTime();
setTimeout(checkPlayerTime, interval); /// repeat function call in 1 second
}
setTimeout(checkPlayerTime, interval); /// initial call delayed
}
function onPlayerStateChange(event) {
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
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