Getting Current YouTube Video Time

Question

I am writing a Browser Plugin and need to find a way to get the current time a YouTube Video playing on YouTube using JavaScript. I have been playing around in the Chrome Ja

Answer 1

Depends on what you want

player.getCurrentTime():Number

Returns the elapsed time in seconds since the video started playing.

player.getDuration():Number

Returns the duration in seconds of the currently playing video. Note that getDuration() will return 0 until the video's metadata is loaded, which normally happens just after the video starts playing.

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/js_api_reference.html