getCurrentTime() for YouTube Video

Question

I\'m writing a Chrome Extension in Javascript and I want to get the current time for the playing video on youtube.com. I tried using the answer from question Getting Current You

Answer 1

you can only use getElementById when you´r referencing to the correct page. You´r using the right id. if you´r trying to access the play form another page you can use the jquery .load() function

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in the sample they do it like so: function getCurrentTime() { var currentTime = player.getCurrentTime(); return roundNumber(currentTime, 3); }