/** * A lightweight youtube embed. Still should feel the same to the user, just MUCH faster to initialize and paint. * * Thx to these as the inspiration * https://storage.googleapis.com/amp-vs-non-amp/youtube-lazy.html * https://autoplay-youtube-player.glitch.me/ * * Once built it, I also found these: * https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/extensions/amp-youtube (👍👍) * https://github.com/Daugilas/lazyYT * https://github.com/vb/lazyframe */ class LiteYTEmbed extends HTMLElement { connectedCallback() { this.videoId = this.getAttribute('videoid'); let playBtnEl = this.querySelector('.lty-playbtn'); // A label for the button takes priority over a [playlabel] attribute on the custom-element this.playLabel = (playBtnEl && playBtnEl.textContent.trim()) || this.getAttribute('playlabel') || 'Play'; this.dataset.title = this.getAttribute('title') || ""; /** * Lo, the youtube poster image! (aka the thumbnail, image placeholder, etc) * * See https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed/blob/master/youtube-thumbnail-urls.md */ if (!this.style.backgroundImage) { this.style.backgroundImage = `url("https://i.ytimg.com/vi/${this.videoId}/hqdefault.jpg")`; this.upgradePosterImage(); } // Set up play button, and its visually hidden label if (!playBtnEl) { playBtnEl = document.createElement('button'); playBtnEl.type = 'button'; playBtnEl.classList.add('lty-playbtn'); this.append(playBtnEl); } if (!playBtnEl.textContent) { const playBtnLabelEl = document.createElement('span'); playBtnLabelEl.className = 'lyt-visually-hidden'; playBtnLabelEl.textContent = this.playLabel; playBtnEl.append(playBtnLabelEl); } this.addNoscriptIframe(); playBtnEl.removeAttribute('href'); // On hover (or tap), warm up the TCP connections we're (likely) about to use. this.addEventListener('pointerover', LiteYTEmbed.warmConnections, {once: true}); // Once the user clicks, add the real iframe and drop our play button // TODO: In the future we could be like amp-youtube and silently swap in the iframe during idle time // We'd want to only do this for in-viewport or near-viewport ones: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/pull/5003 this.addEventListener('click', this.activate); // Chrome & Edge desktop have no problem with the basic YouTube Embed with ?autoplay=1 // However Safari desktop and most/all mobile browsers do not successfully track the user gesture of clicking through the creation/loading of the iframe, // so they don't autoplay automatically. Instead we must load an additional 2 sequential JS files (1KB + 165KB) (un-br) for the YT Player API // TODO: Try loading the the YT API in parallel with our iframe and then attaching/playing it. #82 this.needsYTApi = this.hasAttribute("js-api") || navigator.vendor.includes('Apple') || navigator.userAgent.includes('Mobi'); } /** * Add a to the head */ static addPrefetch(kind, url, as) { const linkEl = document.createElement('link'); linkEl.rel = kind; linkEl.href = url; if (as) { linkEl.as = as; } document.head.append(linkEl); } /** * Begin pre-connecting to warm up the iframe load * Since the embed's network requests load within its iframe, * preload/prefetch'ing them outside the iframe will only cause double-downloads. * So, the best we can do is warm up a few connections to origins that are in the critical path. * * Maybe `` would work, but it's unsupported: http://crbug.com/593267 * But TBH, I don't think it'll happen soon with Site Isolation and split caches adding serious complexity. */ static warmConnections() { if (LiteYTEmbed.preconnected) return; // The iframe document and most of its subresources come right off youtube.com LiteYTEmbed.addPrefetch('preconnect', 'https://www.youtube-nocookie.com'); // The botguard script is fetched off from google.com LiteYTEmbed.addPrefetch('preconnect', 'https://www.google.com'); // Not certain if these ad related domains are in the critical path. Could verify with domain-specific throttling. LiteYTEmbed.addPrefetch('preconnect', 'https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net'); LiteYTEmbed.addPrefetch('preconnect', 'https://static.doubleclick.net'); LiteYTEmbed.preconnected = true; } fetchYTPlayerApi() { if (window.YT || (window.YT && window.YT.Player)) return; this.ytApiPromise = new Promise((res, rej) => { var el = document.createElement('script'); el.src = 'https://www.youtube.com/iframe_api'; el.async = true; el.onload = _ => { YT.ready(res); }; el.onerror = rej; this.append(el); }); } /** Return the YT Player API instance. (Public L-YT-E API) */ async getYTPlayer() { if(!this.playerPromise) { await this.activate(); } return this.playerPromise; } async addYTPlayerIframe() { this.fetchYTPlayerApi(); await this.ytApiPromise; const videoPlaceholderEl = document.createElement('div') this.append(videoPlaceholderEl); const paramsObj = Object.fromEntries(this.getParams().entries()); this.playerPromise = new Promise(resolve => { let player = new YT.Player(videoPlaceholderEl, { width: '100%', videoId: this.videoId, playerVars: paramsObj, events: { 'onReady': event => { event.target.playVideo(); resolve(player); } } }); }); } // Add the iframe within