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

In case you can be pretty sure about the validity of the input and can't use regex, I use this code (returns in miliseconds):

Integer parseYTDuration(char[] dStr) {
    Integer d = 0;

    for (int i = 0; i < dStr.length; i++) {
        if (Character.isDigit(dStr[i])) {
            String digitStr = "";
            digitStr += dStr[i];
            i++;
            while (Character.isDigit(dStr[i])) {
                digitStr += dStr[i];
                i++;
            }

            Integer digit = Integer.valueOf(digitStr);

            if (dStr[i] == 'H')
                d += digit * 3600;
            else if (dStr[i] == 'M')
                d += digit * 60;
            else
                d += digit;
        }
    }

    return d * 1000;
}

Answer 2

Time is already formatted, so it seems just replacing will be enough.

 private String stringForTime(String ytFormattedTime) {
                 return ytFormattedTime
                        .replace("PT","")
                        .replace("H",":")
                        .replace("M",":")
                        .replace("S","");
 }

Answer 3

The question Converting ISO 8601-compliant String to java.util.Date contains another solution:

The easier solution is possibly to use the data type converter in JAXB, since JAXB must be able to parse ISO8601 date string according to the XML Schema specification. javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.parseDateTime("2010-01-01T12:00:00Z") will give you a Calendar object and you can simply use getTime() on it, if you need a Date object.

Answer 4

And yet another long way to do the same.

// PT1H9M24S -->  1:09:24
// PT2H1S"   -->  2:00:01
// PT23M2S   -->  23:02
// PT31S     -->  0:31

public String convertDuration(String duration) {
    duration = duration.substring(2);  // del. PT-symbols
    String H, M, S;
    // Get Hours:
    int indOfH = duration.indexOf("H");  // position of H-symbol
    if (indOfH > -1) {  // there is H-symbol
        H = duration.substring(0,indOfH);      // take number for hours
        duration = duration.substring(indOfH); // del. hours
        duration = duration.replace("H","");   // del. H-symbol
    } else {
        H = "";
    }
    // Get Minutes:
    int indOfM = duration.indexOf("M");  // position of M-symbol
    if (indOfM > -1) {  // there is M-symbol
        M = duration.substring(0,indOfM);      // take number for minutes
        duration = duration.substring(indOfM); // del. minutes
        duration = duration.replace("M","");   // del. M-symbol
        // If there was H-symbol and less than 10 minutes
        // then add left "0" to the minutes
        if (H.length() > 0 && M.length() == 1) {
            M = "0" + M;
        }
    } else {
        // If there was H-symbol then set "00" for the minutes
        // otherwise set "0"
        if (H.length() > 0) {
            M = "00";
        } else {
            M = "0";
        }
    }
    // Get Seconds:
    int indOfS = duration.indexOf("S");  // position of S-symbol
    if (indOfS > -1) {  // there is S-symbol
        S = duration.substring(0,indOfS);      // take number for seconds
        duration = duration.substring(indOfS); // del. seconds
        duration = duration.replace("S","");   // del. S-symbol
        if (S.length() == 1) {
            S = "0" + S;
        }
    } else {
        S = "00";
    }
    if (H.length() > 0) {
        return H + ":" +  M + ":" + S;
    } else {
        return M + ":" + S;
    }
}

Answer 5

I may be late for the party, it's actually very simple. Although there may be better ways of doing this. duration is in milliseconds.

public long getDuration() {
    String time = "PT15H12M46S".substring(2);
    long duration = 0L;
    Object[][] indexs = new Object[][]{{"H", 3600}, {"M", 60}, {"S", 1}};
    for(int i = 0; i < indexs.length; i++) {
        int index = time.indexOf((String) indexs[i][0]);
        if(index != -1) {
            String value = time.substring(0, index);
            duration += Integer.parseInt(value) * (int) indexs[i][1] * 1000;
            time = time.substring(value.length() + 1);
        }
    }
    return duration;
}

Answer 6

Here is my solution

public class MyDateFromat{
    public static void main(String args[]){
        String ytdate = "PT1H1M15S";
        String result = ytdate.replace("PT","").replace("H",":").replace("M",":").replace("S","");
        String arr[]=result.split(":");
        String timeString = String.format("%d:%02d:%02d", Integer.parseInt(arr[0]), Integer.parseInt(arr[1]),Integer.parseInt(arr[2]));
        System.out.print(timeString);       
    }
}

It will return a string in H:MM:SS format if you want to convert in seconds you can use

int timeInSedonds = int timeInSecond = Integer.parseInt(arr[0])*3600 + Integer.parseInt(arr[1])*60 +Integer.parseInt(arr[2])

Note: it can throw exception so please handle it based on size of result.split(":");