New Videocrawl Feature: Tracking Video Progress

We’ve implemented a smart video progress tracking system in https://www.videocrawl.dev/ that remembers your watching position across sessions. Now when you close a tab or navigate away from a video, you’ll be able to pick up right where you left off when you return.

The feature includes:

• A visual progress bar showing how much of the video you’ve watched
• Automatic resumption from your last position when returning to a video
• Persistent progress tracking across browser sessions

Technical Details

We approached this as a persistent state management problem, using the browser’s localStorage API to save your viewing position without requiring server-side modifications. This keeps things simple and incrementally build the complete feature.

The implementation includes several important technical considerations:

• The system only writes to localStorage when meaningful progress has been made (at least 5 seconds of viewing) and does this at 10-second intervals while playing to minimize performance impact.
• After seeking to your saved position, the system verifies the position was set correctly and tries again if necessary – handling edge cases where the player API doesn’t respond as expected.

Enabling Future Features

This feature ays the groundwork for several advanced features we have in the backlog – 1) watch time analytics and completion tracking 2) intelligent recommendations.

For those of you using our platform for longer educational videos, we hope this makes your learning experience more flexible and convenient.

We’re continuing to refine our video experience, and as always, we appreciate your feedback.