Based on the docs , it appears that I should be able to add an event listener to the twitch embed object, and then get the player object when the video is ready or starts playing. however, as you can see in this codepen , the event never triggers, even though the video is playing.

Bug Report: event listeners on embed don't trigger

BarryCarlyon May 15, 2020, 7:06pm 2

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