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Snowplow YouTube Tracking

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Browser Plugin to be used with @snowplow/browser-tracker.

Adds YouTube Video and Audio tracking events to your Snowplow tracking.

Maintainer quick start

Part of the Snowplow JavaScript Tracker monorepo.
Build with Node.js (14 or 16) and Rush.

Setup repository

npm install -g @microsoft/rush 
git clone https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow-javascript-tracker.git
rush update

Package Installation

With npm:

npm install @snowplow/browser-plugin-youtube-tracking

Usage

Initialize your tracker with the YouTubeTrackingPlugin:

import { newTracker } from '@snowplow/browser-tracker';
import { YouTubeTrackingPlugin } from 'snowplow-browser-youtube-tracker';

newTracker('sp2', '{{collector}}', { plugins: [ YouTubeTrackingPlugin() ] }); // Also stores reference at module level

Then, use the enableYouTubeTracking function described below to produce events from your YouTube IFrame(s).

enableYouTubeTracking({ id, options?: { label?, captureEvents?, percentBoundries?, updateRate? } })
Parameter Type Default Description Required
id string - The HTML id attribute of the youtube element Yes
options.label string - An identifiable custom label sent with the event No
options.captureEvents string[] ['DefaultEvents'] The name(s) of the events to capture No
options.boundries number[] [10, 25, 50, 75] The progress percentages to fire an event at (if enabled) No
options.updateRate number 500 The rate at which volume/seek events are checked in ms No

Example Usage

  ...
  <body>
    <video id="my-video" src="my-video.mp4">
  </body>
  ...
import { enableYouTubeTracking } from '@snowplow/browser-plugin-youtube-tracking'

enableYouTubeTracking({
  id: 'my-video',
  options: {
    label: "My Custom Video Label",
    captureEvents: ["pause", "volumechange", "percentprogress"],
    boundries: [10, 25, 50, 75],
  }
})

Copyright and license

Licensed and distributed under the BSD 3-Clause License (An OSI Approved License).

Copyright (c) 2022 Snowplow Analytics Ltd.

All rights reserved.