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# AVPlayerItemAccessLog

An object used to retrieve the access log associated with a player item.

```
class AVPlayerItemAccessLog
```

## Overview

An `AVPlayerItemAccessLog` object accumulates key metrics about network playback and presents them as a collection of [`AVPlayerItemAccessLogEvent`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVPlayerItemAccessLogEvent) instances. Each event instance collates the data that relates to each uninterrupted period of playback.

## Topics

### Accessing log data

[`events`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVPlayerItemAccessLog/events)

A chronologically ordered array of player item access log events.

[`extendedLogData()`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVPlayerItemAccessLog/extendedLogData())

Returns a serialized representation of the access log in the Extended Log File Format.

[`extendedLogDataStringEncoding`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVPlayerItemAccessLog/extendedLogDataStringEncoding)

The string encoding of the extended log data.


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