How to use the Youtube JS API to play music in the background

󰃭 2014-05-23

The Youtube JavaScript API allows you to embed YouTube videos and interact with them programatically. To use it, first you need to embed this script into your page:

<script src="http://www.youtube.com/player_api"></script>.

If you just want the audio, you can hide the element that contains the video:

<div id="player" style="position: absolute; top: -9999px; left: -9999px;"></div>

Here we use absolute positioning with negative coordinates because using display: none; will prevent the onReady handler from the Youtube player from triggering on Firefox. I ran across this problem when making this.

Finally, here’s a full example that will wait for the video to load and automatically play it:

Tags: #javascript #tutorials #youtube

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