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aztrorisk
aztrorisk

Reputation: 171

How to play and pause a Youtube video in the console?

Go to an url such as:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/zvCBSSwgtg4

and open the chrome console. I want to know what javascript command will play the youtube video and what javascript command will pause the youtube video.

I've tried using the profiler and inspector to find these commands but they are too well hidden. If someone is really good at javascript debugging, this would be a big help. Thanks!

Yes, I know youtube has API for iframes, but my use case is different.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6391

Answers (4)

Charles
Charles

Reputation: 1

Here is one!

$('video').playbackRate = 0.1-16

Upvotes: 0

meteors
meteors

Reputation: 1827

For HTML5 youtube player simply doing:

document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].play()

document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].pause()

I recently created a chrome extension for same: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-playback-control/okbcoijdeebocmahlanbfemnckjonfnh

Hope it helps.

Upvotes: 12

Cameron
Cameron

Reputation: 1524

Have you tried triggering a click on the actual play/pause button?

document.getElementsByClassName('ytp-play-button')[0].click();

Upvotes: 7

foo moo boo
foo moo boo

Reputation: 46

This should be easy to do, just check for event attached to the button that you pushed and then trigger them manually using.

For example if the button has a jQuery event handler use:

http://api.jquery.com/trigger/

Or if it is a native JavaScript event you can use:

How to trigger event in JavaScript?

Upvotes: 1

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