Click on the play button every 3 secs with user script - Js

Question

I am trying to write a script which click on the play / pause button every 3 secs. The video is in the google drive and I'd like to make a Tampermonkey script.

// ==UserScript==
// @name Drive video
// @description 
// @author 
// @version 1.0
// @match *drive.google.com*
// @match https://drive.google.com*
// ==/UserScript==

var playButton = document.getElementsByClassName("ytp-play-button.ytp-button");

// To videos variables
    function playOrPause() {
        playButton.click();
    }

setInterval(playOrPause(), 3000);

Possible duplicate of [Jquery - perform an action every couple of seconds](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6909692/jquery-perform-an-action-every-couple-of-seconds) — Ahmed Yousif, Jul 18 '18 at 15:56
Also read [What do querySelectorAll, getElementsByClassName and other getElementsBy* methods return?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10693845/what-do-queryselectorall-getelementsbyclassname-and-other-getelementsby-method) — charlietfl, Jul 18 '18 at 15:58
You might wanna use `querySelector` like `document.querySelector(".ytp-play-button.ytp-button")` — Vignesh Raja, Jul 18 '18 at 16:59

Ahmed Yousif · Answer 1 · 2018-07-18T16:04:03.090

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the main issue in your code is to pass function reference playOrPause not call it playOrPause()

  function playOrPause() {
        playButton.click();
        setTimeout(playOrPause, 3000);
    }

setTimeout(playOrPause, 3000);

or

function playOrPause() {
        playButton.click();
    }

setInterval(playOrPause, 3000);

edited Jul 18 '18 at 16:04

answered Jul 18 '18 at 15:58

Ahmed Yousif

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Why would you add another setInterval? Will have hundreds of interval timers running after a while – charlietfl Jul 18 '18 at 15:59
I dislike answers with *«Try this»* as the only explanation. – Louys Patrice Bessette Jul 18 '18 at 16:03

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