I'm currently doing measures on the quality of a video youtube depending on given network conditions. I wrote a custom Chrome extension to play videos and get buffering informations thanks to the youtube player api.
What I would need now is the content of the 'Stats for nerds' panel that appears when you right-click on the video (example).I can display it thanks to UI automation. But, when I try to access the content of this panel with javascript, I get an error because of Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS).
I only want to read the Current/OptimalRes of the panel. Do you have any idea of a way to get it?
I've been searching for an answer to this question for long now. It has been mentioned here, but the answer to this post is not what I'm looking for as it only gives the general information about the video, not the resolution that is actually being played.