Get duration from a youtube url

Question

Im looking for a function that will pull the youtube duration of a video from the url. I read some tutorials but don\'t get it. I embed videos on my site using a url and I have

Answer 1

You could use something like this:

data->duration;
    }

    echo getDuration('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFQc7VRJowk');

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that returns the duration in seconds of the video.

Reference: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol.html

You can use a function like this one to change the seconds to hours, minutes, and seconds.