Can I get the total duration of the video?

[VigneshVaidyanathan]

I want to get the total duration of the video given in the Id. I dont see any method right now to get the total duration, is there any way to get it?

[liquidvisual]

@VigneshVaidyanathan I ended up grabbing this separately from a fetch request to the YouTube API. The following returns an object with a lot of information you can use, including thumbnails and stats:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet,contentDetails,statistics,status&key=[YOUR_KEY_HERE]&id=[VIDEO_ID]

Note: video_id can also be a comma separated list of ids if you want to grab multiple.

[liquidvisual]

Also when accessing the response object, response.contentDetails.duration will give you a string like this PT3H10M9S etc

I wrote this function to make use of it like this: "3:10:09"

function duration(response) {
  const str = response.contentDetails.duration;
  const h = bt(str, 'PT', 'H');
  const m = bt(str, 'PT', 'M') || bt(str, 'H', 'M') || '00';
  const s = bt(str, 'M', 'S') || bt(str, 'H', 'S') || bt(str, 'PT', 'S') || '00';

  let final = '';

  if (h) final += `${h}:`;
  if (m) final += `${m}:`;
  final += ('00'+s).slice(-2);

  function bt(str, start, end) { // getValBetween
    const tmpStr = str.match(new RegExp(start + "(.*)" + end));
    return tmpStr && tmpStr[1];
  }

  return final;
}