Title: How use Youtube API
Last modified: March 17, 2020

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# How use Youtube API

 *  [jeeve94](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeeve94/)
 * (@jeeve94)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-use-youtube-api/)
 * How can you intercept (in javascript ?) the video’s playback click, or more generally
   access youtube API functions such as playback status?
 * Thanks a lot
    jean-valery
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 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-use-youtube-api/#post-12553261)
 * haven’t done so myself, but once your visitors press play, the normal youtube
   iframe loads, so you’ll probably be able to do this the way you do for normal
   youtube embeds.

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