Converting Youtube Data API V3 video duration format to seconds in JavaScript/Node.js

Question

I\'m trying to convert ISO 8601 string to seconds in JS/Node. The best I could come up with was:

function convert_time(duration) {
    var a = duration.match         


        

Answer 1

You can find a very simple PHP solution here - How To Convert Youtube API Time (ISO 8601 String Video Duration) to Seconds In PHP - Code

This function convert_time() takes one parameter as input - the Youtube API Time (Video Duration) which is in ISO 8601 string format and returns its duration in seconds.

function convert_time($str) 
{
    $n = strlen($str);
    $ans = 0;
    $curr = 0;
    for($i=0; $i<$n; $i++)
    {
        if($str[$i] == 'P' || $str[$i] == 'T')
        {

        }
        else if($str[$i] == 'H')
        {
            $ans = $ans + 3600*$curr;
            $curr = 0;
        }
        else if($str[$i] == 'M')
        {
            $ans = $ans + 60*$curr;
            $curr = 0;
        }
        else if($str[$i] == 'S')
        {
            $ans = $ans + $curr;
            $curr = 0;
        }
        else
        {
            $curr = 10*$curr + $str[$i];
        }
    }
    return($ans);
}

Testing Some Inputs:

"PT2M23S" => 143
"PT2M" => 120
"PT28S" => 28
"PT5H22M31S" => 19351
"PT3H" => 10800
"PT1H6M" => 3660
"PT1H6S" => 3606