Question

I have created a YouTube player with the YouTube Javascript API that loads up a playlist I have created.

Because the video is chromeless, it does not display controls or video info.
I was hoping to pull the title of the currently playing video and display it underneath. I can pull information such as current time position, and current video duration with things like ytplayer.getDuration() and ytplayer.getCurrentTime().

Wondering if something like “ytplayer.getTitle()” might exist but be undocumented?

Answer 1

You can’t get the title from the ytplayer object, as that’s really just an interface to the player controls. But you could add in a quick call to the video feed (perhaps as a part of the onPlayerReady function, but it could really be anywhere). For example, with jQuery this would only require:

$.get('http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/[videoid]?v=2&alt=json',function(data) {
       title=data.entry.title.$t;
});