Track YouTube Video Playback with jQuery and Google Analytics Events - api

Question

I have 4 iframe and I want to recover by clicking on their id .
I walked my iframe using google analytic and I put their id in a table.
Then I create an object of type YT.Player
Probleme : the method onPlayerStateChange does not run .
here is my code :
<script type="text/javascript">
/*
YouTube Analytics
Code adapted from:
http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2012/10/22/automatically-track-youtube-videos-events-google-analytics/
http://lunametrics.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/js/lunametrics-youtube.js
Code adapted by Alex Mueller for ISITE Design http://isitedesign.com
*/
// enable cross-domain scripting in IE < 10 for the YouTube Data API
// https://github.com/jaubourg/ajaxHooks/blob/master/src/xdr.js
if(window.XDomainRequest){jQuery.ajaxTransport(function(e){if(e.crossDomain&&e.async){if(e.timeout){e.xdrTimeout=e.timeout;delete e.timeout}var t;return{send:function(n,r){function i(e,n,i,s){t.onload=t.onerror=t.ontimeout=jQuery.noop;t=undefined;r(e,n,i,s)}t=new XDomainRequest;t.onload=function(){i(200,"OK",{text:t.responseText},"Content-Type: "+t.contentType)};t.onerror=function(){i(404,"Not Found")};t.onprogress=jQuery.noop;t.ontimeout=function(){i(0,"timeout")};t.timeout=e.xdrTimeout||Number.MAX_VALUE;t.open(e.type,e.url);t.send(e.hasContent&&e.data||null)},abort:function(){if(t){t.onerror=jQuery.noop;t.abort()}}}}})}
// load the YouTube iframe API
var tag = document.createElement('script');
tag.src = "//www.youtube.com/iframe_api";
var firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore(tag, firstScriptTag);
// initialize our arrays to hold video and player information
var playerArray = [],
videoArray = [];
// safely pass the jQuery object as $
(function($) {
// enables tracking of all YouTube videos on the page
function trackYouTube() {
// iterate through every iframe on the page
$('iframe').each(function(i) {
// grab the video source and other properties
var baseUrlLength,
$iframe = $(this),
iframeSrc = $iframe.attr('src'),
isYouTubeVideo = false,
videoID,
url;
// if the video uses the http protocol
if (iframeSrc.substr(0,25) == "http://www.youtube.com/v/") {
baseUrlLength = 25;
isYouTubeVideo = true;
}
// otherwise if the video uses the https protocol
else if (iframeSrc.substr(0,26) == "https://www.youtube.com/v/") {
baseUrlLength = 26;
isYouTubeVideo = true;
}
// if we're dealing with a YouTube video, store its information in our arrays
if (isYouTubeVideo) {
// grab the videoID
videoID = iframeSrc.substr(baseUrlLength);
url = '//gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/' + videoID + '?v=2&alt=json';
// if the ID ends with extra characters...
if (videoID.indexOf('&') > -1) {
// ...remove the extra characters
videoID = videoID.substr(0, videoID.indexOf('&'));
}
// put an object in our array with the videoID...
videoArray[i] = {};
videoArray[i].id = videoID;
// put the videoID on the iframe as its id
$iframe.attr('id', videoID);
}
});
}
$(function() {
// initiate tracking on document ready
trackYouTube();
onYouTubeIframeAPIReady();
});
})(jQuery);
function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady() {
// insert YouTube Player objects into our playerArray
for (var i = 0; i < videoArray.length; i++) {
playerArray[i] = new YT.Player(videoArray[i].id, {
events: {
'onStateChange': onPlayerStateChange
}
});
}
}
// when the player changes states
function onPlayerStateChange(event) {
// if the video begins playing, send the event
if (event.data == YT.PlayerState.PLAYING) {
alert();
}
// if the video ends, send the event
if (event.data == YT.PlayerState.ENDED) {
alert();
}
}
</script>

Answer 1

You have to set the enablejsapi parameter to 1 in your iframe embed link.
By default, the parameter is set to 0 and unless you set it to 1, the callbacks won't work.
Reference: https://developers.google.com/youtube/js_api_reference