Sharing Events

Sharing API calls work in conjunction with our getPlugin() method. For instance, all of our sharing instances are using the getPlugin(β€˜sharing’) API call to refer to this particular plugin. The following will target our sharing plugin:

.on('ready', function(event){
  sharingPlugin = jwplayer().getPlugin('sharing');
});

All sharingPlugin references below will assume that the above code is implemented on your page.


("sharing").on('open')

Listens for the opening of the plugin.

ValueDescriptionType
-No value returned-

("sharing").on('close')

Listens for the closing of the plugin.

ValueDescriptionType
-No value returned-

("sharing").on('click')

Triggered whenever somebody shares content from within the sharing plugin.

Returns an object with the following:

ValueDescriptionType
methodLabel of the sharing method that was usedString