Netflix video player in Chrome - how to seek?

Question

I have been unable to figure out how to do a video seek (automatically advance to a certain point in the video) in the Netflix video player running in Chrome. The curr

Answer 1

It will only work in console log of netflix if you want it to work in chrome extension then you need to inject this code in a script tag to make this work.

const videoPlayer = netflix.appContext.state.playerApp.getAPI().videoPlayer;
const player = videoPlayer.getVideoPlayerBySessionId(videoPlayer.getAllPlayerSessionIds()[0]);

player.seek(1091243) //seek to roughly 18mins

player.getCurrentTime() // will give you the current video time.