# Web player / windows player 'skip intro' button code?

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/web-player-windows-player-skip-intro-button-code/876469>\
**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** plex-web, player-windows\
**Created:** [April 30, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/web-player-windows-player-skip-intro-button-code/876469 "2024-04-30T21:43:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![john\_kenny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3e96dc/32.png) [@john\_kenny](https://forums.plex.tv/u/john_kenny)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/web-player-windows-player-skip-intro-button-code/876469/1 "2024-04-30T21:43:06Z")

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Related to a reply post of mine:

> [@New features?](https://forums.plex.tv/t/new-features/872034/8):
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> I also have been waiting for this feature since intro detection was released, it’s depressing that other OS player builds now have auto skip intro options but still not the windows build / web player app, being essentially related builds? Is it planned anytime soon for web player / windows player any time soon? In the meantime if anyone knows where the skip intro button code is located I’d love to hear from you as I have been wanting to setup a workaround to modify the code to auto press the b…

Can anyone help me work out where the code for the ‘skip intro’ button might be located? I am wanting to mod an automatically skip intro workaround somehow by triggering the button rather than it only displaying?

Obviously my programming skills are beginner level only and don’t go beyond Python, hence my post?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![lunamonkey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/lunamonkey/32/204649_2.png) [@lunamonkey](https://forums.plex.tv/u/lunamonkey)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 8:49am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/web-player-windows-player-skip-intro-button-code/876469/2 "2025-11-19T08:49:53Z")

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Without checking, it’s likely that it reads the intro markers from the XML (which are put there by the background process if enabled), and then just does a seekTo(10000) for example.

Edit: I’m really sorry for bumping this, I was looking for the similar issue and then saw this. I didn’t check the dates.