Events & Analytics plugin

The events plugin allows to track a bunch of player events and record the most important events in Google Analycis or Matomo (formerly Piwik) platforms.

Initialize player and plugins

This is essential to set unique title and unique id for each video that events you want to track. You can do it in several ways, e.g. as Nuevo plugin options.

<script>
	var player = videojs('player_1');
	player.nuevo({ title:"Events Example Video", video_id:"v111" });
	player.events(); 
</script>

To enable one of available analytics methods just enable appropriate option. Events plugin automatically detects analytics method used on website.

player.events({ analytics:true });

Tracking events javascript function is simple:

<script>
player.on('track', (e, data) => {
  var event_name = data.eventType;
  var video_id = data.playerId;
  var video_title = data.playerTitle;
});
</script>

You may check browser's Console to see how example video is tracked. In the source code you will find a function that allows to output events in Console.

Plugin's description and full list of events available to track you can find on Nuevodevel demo website page.