Javascript is limited when making ajax requests outside of the current domain. Ex 1: your domain is example.com and you want to make a request to test.com => you cannot. Ex 2: your domain is example.com and you want to make a request to inner.example.com => you cannot. Ex 3: your domain is example.com:80 and … Read more
You need to look at the YouTube Data API. You will find there documentation about how the API can be accessed. You can also find client libraries. You could also make the requests yourself. Here is an example URL that retrieves the latest videos from a channel: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?key={your_key_here}&channelId={channel_id_here}&part=snippet,id&order=date&maxResults=20 After that you will receive a JSON … Read more
Fiddle Links: Source code – Preview – Small version Update: This small function will only execute code in a single direction. If you want full support (eg event listeners / getters), have a look at Listening for Youtube Event in jQuery As a result of a deep code analysis, I’ve created a function: function callPlayer … Read more
Most YouTube video use adaptive bit rate (ABR) format streaming which means that there is not just a single bit rate. For ABR multiple bit rate versions of the video are created and each one is broken down into equal length (by time) chunks – e.g. 10 second chunks. The client player is then able … Read more
How do I get a YouTube video thumbnail from the YouTube API?
Underlying cause: Content scripts are executed in an “isolated world” environment. Solution: Inject the code into the page using DOM – that code will be able to access functions/variables of the page context (“main world”) or expose functions/variables to the page context (in your case it’s the state() method). Note in case communication with the … Read more