How to set a goal in Yandex.Metrica to watch YouTube videos?

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Andrey Privalov2016-08-01 10:23:28

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Andrey Privalov, 2016-08-01 10:23:28

Tell me a solution, how to track the start of watching a YouTube video (embedded as an iframe)?

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xmoonlight, 2016-08-01
@xmoonlight

1. On the event of a click on the video - create (if not available) a hidden iframe where you load a pre-prepared dummy page with a counter from Yandex and pass all the parameters of the video there: ID, viewing duration, start / end timestamp, etc.
2. Any events of the video can be tracked through the youtube api and the link can be changed in the hidden iframe.
3. In Yandex metrics - catch the parameters of the GET request and set goals based on them.
In general, I advise you to read: https://habrahabr.ru/post/233955/

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Evgeny Bezymyannikov, 2016-08-01
@psman

No way. A cross-domain frame will not allow you to catch events.

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Andrey Privalov, 2016-08-01
@negasus

I'll answer myself. Found the iframe tracker jquery plugin
It looks like it solves the problem without digging into the internals