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Reputation: 1937

Youtube API detecting advertisements

Is there a way to detect a youtube advertisement, when it is playing and also when it ends?

Something like:

function onPlayerStateChange(event) {
   if(event.data == advertisement) {
      console.log("Advertisement is playing");
   }
   if(event.data == advertisementIsOver) {
      console.log("Advertisement has finished playing");
   }
}

I see the question here:

What is the YouTube's PlayerState during pre-roll ad?

And am wondering if there are any updates to the youtube api? Also, can someone provide some code of a youtube advertisement detector? I am not sure how one reliably catches when an advertisement is playing.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5885

Answers (2)

Edward Severinsen
Edward Severinsen

Reputation: 703

A little late but better late than never...

I'm currently developing a chrome extension specifically targeted towards YouTube video playback manipulation. This is one method I've found to detect whether an ad is playing:

Note: All classes I use and Id's are subject to change as YouTube developers change them.

1) Get the html5 video element first: var mainVideo = document.getElementByClassName("html5-main-video"). No element Id for it at the moment but it always has the class html5-main-video.

2) Set an event handler for when the video is ready to play that will check whether or not it's an ad and will be fired when a new video is loaded and ready to play mainVideo.oncanplay = isVideoAnAd.

3) When an ad is playing the progress bar is yellow or more specifically rgb(255, 204, 0) and this property is easily comparable using jQuery 

function isVideoAnAd () {
     if($(".ytp-play-progress").css("background-color") === "rgb(255, 204, 0)
     {
        return true;
     }}

For more reliable results you can also check the movie_player elements classList to see if it contains("ad-showing"). By the way, movie_player is the id.

Tip: I found all of this with inspect element

This is really the only reliable way I've found to detect ads without having to dive into the YouTube API.

Upvotes: 10

abielita
abielita

Reputation: 13469

You might want to check this documentation. It is stated that you can use onAdStarted() which is called when playback of an advertisement starts.

Here is a related forum and tutorial which might help.

Upvotes: -1

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