How to convert Youtube API V3 duration in Java

Question

The Youtube V3 API uses ISO8601 time format to describe the duration of videos. Something likes \"PT1M13S\". And now I want to convert the string to the number of seconds (for

Answer 1

You can use the standart SimpleDateFormat to parse the String to a Date and process it from there:

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("'PT'mm'M'ss'S'");
String youtubeDuration = "PT1M13S";
Date d = df.parse(youtubeDuration);
Calendar c = new GregorianCalendar();
c.setTime(d);
c.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
System.out.println(c.get(Calendar.MINUTE));
System.out.println(c.get(Calendar.SECOND));