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

You can use Html5 Video API on youtube.com

var htmlVideoPlayer = document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0];
htmlVideoPlayer.currentTime

Note: It's not gonna work on Youtube Iframe API because Iframes are isolated. You cannot access the context of a Youtube IFrame .