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An example script demonstrating how to track custom video players with Parse.ly's JavaScript API
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example_strategy.js
var platform = "myVideoPlatform";
var strategy = {
platform: platform,
searchTags: ["DIV"],
verify: function(elem) {
return (' ' + elem.className + ' ').indexOf(" my_video ") !== -1;
},
subscribe: function(elem) {
var playerApi = myVideoJsApi(elem);
playerApi.on("play", function(playedVideoMetadata) {
// this hypothetical player API calls its event handlers with
// the metadata of the video as the only argument. with a different
// player API, you might need to perform some more metadata lookups,
// possibly from disparate data sources.
PARSELY.video.onPlay(playerApi, playedVideoMetadata.id, {
duration: playedVideoMetadata.duration,
image_url: playedVideoMetadata.image_url,
pub_date_tmsp: playedVideoMetadata.pub_date_tmsp,
title: playedVideoMetadata.title,
author: playedVideoMetadata.author,
tags: playedVideoMetadata.tags,
video_platform: platform
});
});
playerApi.on("pause", function(pausedVideoMetadata) {
PARSELY.video.onPause(playerApi, pausedVideoMetadata.id);
});
console.log("Subscribed to custom embed with ID '" + elem.id + "'");
}
};
PARSELY.video.addStrategy(strategy);
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