Youtube iframe api not triggering onYouTubeIframeAPIReady

Question

I've been battling with the youtube iframe api for quite some time now. Somehow the method onYouTubeIframeAPIReady is not always triggered.

From the symptoms it seems a loading problem. No errors are shown in the inspector.

Here is my code:

HTML

<div id="player"></div>
          <script>
            videoId = 'someVideoId';
            var tag = document.createElement('script');
            tag.src = "//www.youtube.com/iframe_api";
            var firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
            firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore(tag, firstScriptTag);
          </script>

JS

(called at the end of the page. I tried to place the code right after the above script and the result was the same.)

var isReady = false
  , player
  , poster
  , video;

$(function () {
$('.js-play').click(function (e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    interval = setInterval(videoLoaded, 100);
  });
});
function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady() {
  console.log(videoId)
  player = new YT.Player('player', {
    height: '445',
    width: '810',
    videoId: videoId,
    events: {
      'onReady': onPlayerReady//,
      //'onStateChange': onPlayerStateChange
    }
  });
}

function onPlayerReady(event) {
  isReady = true;
  console.log("youtube says play")
}

function videoLoaded (){
  if (isReady) {
      console.log("ready and play")
      poster.hide();
      video.show();

      $('body').trigger('fluidvideos');

      player.playVideo();
      clearInterval(interval);
  } 
}

The problem is that sometimes nothing gets printed by the console.log and nothing happens.

On mobile phones this happens all the time. Any ideas?

Answer 1

It is not a timeout issue, and you should not need to fire this function manually.

Make sure your onYouTubeIframeAPIReady function is available at the global level, not nested (hidden away) within another function.

Answer 2

You can always append it to the window object to make sure it is evoked globally. This is helpful if your code is using amd.

window.onYouTubeIframeAPIReady = function() {}