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gtm video tracker
<script type="text/javascript">
// This code loads the IFrame Player API code asynchronously.
(function GtmVideoTracker(){
var tag = document.createElement('script');
var firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
window.GTMplayers = window.GTMplayers || [];
tag.src = "https://www.youtube.com/iframe_api";
firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore(tag, firstScriptTag);
// Optional: Enable JS API if it is not already on the URL
for(var p = document.getElementsByTagName('iframe'), i = p.length, r = /youtube\.com\/embed/; i--;) {
if (r.test(p[i].src)) {
if (p[i].src.indexOf('enablejsapi') === -1) {
p[i].src += (p[i].src.indexOf('?') === -1 ? '?' : '&') + 'enablejsapi=1';
}
}
}
window.onYouTubeIframeAPIReady = window.onYouTubeIframeAPIReady || function() {
for(var p = document.getElementsByTagName('iframe'), i = p.length, r = /youtube\.com\/embed/; i--;) {
if (r.test(p[i].src)) {
window.GTMplayers.push(new YT.Player(p[i], {
events: {
'onReady': onPlayerReady,
'onStateChange': onPlayerStateChange
}
}));
}
}
};
window.onPlayerReady = window.onYouTubeIframeAPIReady || function(){
window.playerReady = true;
};
/**
// The API calls this function when the player's state changes.
window.onPlayerStateChange = window.onPlayerStateChange || function (event) {
// do stuff here
}
*/
})();
</script>
<script src="//dpp750yjcl65g.cloudfront.net/analyticsengine/dist/video/beta/youtube-raw.js"></script>
<script>
(function(w,n,a){w[n]=w[n]||function(){return(w[n][a]=w[n][a]||[]).push(arguments)}}(window, 'videoTracking', 'c'));
if (typeof window.videoTracking == 'function') {
window.videoTracking(function(tracking) {
//tracking.progress(10, 'percent');
tracking.datalayer('dataLayer');
var z = setInterval(function() {
if (window.GTMplayers) {
if (window.playerReady) {
clearInterval(z);
for(i = 0, len = window.GTMplayers.length; i < len; i++) {
tracking.player(window.GTMplayers[i]);
}
}
} else if (window.players) {
if (jQuery('.video-disabled').length < 1) {
clearInterval(z);
for(var _player in window.players) {
var obj = window.players[_player];
tracking.player(obj);
}
}
}
}, 300);
});
</script>
@selwynpolit
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Jacob, is the window.videoTracking function expecting to be executed once or a bunch of times?

@jacshfr
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jacshfr commented Feb 5, 2016

It executes just once. Additionally, although this refactor has removed the global variable ('tag') it has also removed the functionality which keeps this script from breaking the '/summer' pages videos and others like it.

@tmbritton
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Here's a brief refactoring showing how I'd write the second bit as a function that immediately executes:

(function videoTracking($, tracking){
    var z = null;
    tracking.datalayer('dataLayer');
    z = setInterval(function() {
        if (window.GTMplayers) {
            if (window.playerReady) {
                clearInterval(z);
                for(i = 0, len = window.GTMplayers.length; i < len; i++) {
                    tracking.player(window.GTMplayers[i]);
                }
            }
        } else if (window.players) {
            if ($('.video-disabled').length < 1) {
                clearInterval(z);
                for(var _player in window.players) {
                    var obj = window.players[_player];
                    tracking.player(obj);
                }
            }
        }
    }, 300);
})(jQuery, tracking);

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