Video.js URL Params

This plugin reads the containing page's URL to determine what time to seek to at the start and whether to automatically beging playing.

Using the Plugin

The plugin registers itself when you include video.urlparams.js in your page:

<script src='videojs.urlparams.js'></script>

Once you have your video object, you can activate the URL Params plugin.

video.urlParams();

The plugin takes an optional options object. If an options object is provided with a url property, that value will be treated as the URL for extracting the time to which to seek. The default is to use the value of window.location.href;

video.urlParams({
  url: "http://some.url/goes/here#t=2h16m32s"
});

The URL is inspected for two parameters:

• the t parameter is used for the time to which to seek, and
• the presence of the autoplay parameter indicates that the player should begin playing immediately (if possible).

The value for the t parameter should consist of some amount of time in hours, minutes and/or seconds. For example, all of the following are valid values:

• t=2h
• t=2h16m
• t=16m
• t=16m32s
• t=32s

The parameters may appear virtually anywhere in the URL, on either side of the # mark if present.

The autoplay parameter does not need a value (e.g. autoplay=1). The simple presence of the string autoplay is all that is required.