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DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE - for workaround see https://gist.github.com/p3g4asus/597050997e01f8fd1fcf473fe6545a4fModified VLC YouTube playlist parsing script to support playlists with more than 200 videos. Verified it works with 1000+ videos, no duplicates and all included (minus deleted videos). Official version claims to support 100+, but actually o…
--[[
Youtube playlist importer for VLC media player 1.1 and 2.0
Copyright 2012 Guillaume Le Maout
Authors: Guillaume Le Maout
Contact: http://addons.videolan.org/messages/?action=newmessage&username=exebetche
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA.
--]]
--[[
MODified by Kai Gillmann, 19.01.2013, kaigillmann@googlemail.com:
VLC HAS already a youtube importer, but not for playlists. IMO this mentioned one is
better than this one, because it opens the video in the best possible video resolution.
So i decided to remove all parts of the code which is not responsible for list handling.
Now this lua script parses the list, as wanted, but for each video opened, the vlc default
Youtube script is used, so the videos will be displayed properly.
--]]
--[[
Patched by Aaron Hill (https://github.com/seraku24), 2018-05-16:
The original script was failing in VLC 3.x due to an overzealous probe function.
This patch makes the probe function more restrictive to avoid false positives.
--]]
-- Helper function to get a parameter's value in a URL
function get_url_param( url, name )
local _, _, res = string.find( url, "[&?]"..name.."=([^&]*)" )
return res
end
-- Probe function.
function probe()
if vlc.access ~= "http" and vlc.access ~= "https" then
return false
end
return string.match(vlc.path:match("([^/]+)"),"%w+.youtube.com") and (
not string.match(vlc.path, "list_ajax") and string.match(vlc.path, "[?&]list="))
end
-- Parse function.
function parse()
if string.match( vlc.path, "list=" ) then
local playlist_parsed, playlistData, line, s, item
local p = {}
local id_ref = {}
local index = 0
local playlistID = get_url_param( vlc.path, "list" )
local videoID = get_url_param( vlc.path, "v" )
local playlistURL = "https://www.youtube.com/list_ajax?action_get_list=1&style=xml&list="..playlistID
local prevLoaded = 0
while true do
playlistData = ""
line = ""
s = nil
s = vlc.stream(playlistURL.."&index="..index)
while line do
playlistData = playlistData..line
line = s:readline()
end
playlist_parsed = nil
playlist_parsed = parse_xml(playlistData).root.video
if playlist_parsed == nil then
playlist_parsed = {}
end
for i, video in ipairs(playlist_parsed) do
if not id_ref[video.encrypted_id.CDATA] then
vlc.msg.dbg(i.." "..video.encrypted_id.CDATA)
id_ref[video.encrypted_id.CDATA] = true
item = nil
item = {}
if video.encrypted_id
and video.encrypted_id.CDATA then
item.path = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v="..video.encrypted_id.CDATA
end
if video.title
and video.title.CDATA then
item.title = video.title.CDATA
end
if video.artist
and video.artist.CDATA then
item.artist = video.artist.CDATA
end
if video.thumbnail
and video.thumbnail.CDATA then
item.arturl = video.thumbnail.CDATA
end
if video.description
and video.description.CDATA then
item.description = video.description.CDATA
end
--~ item.rating = video.rating
table.insert (p, item)
end
end
if #p > prevLoaded or index == 100 then
vlc.msg.dbg("Playlist-Youtube: Loaded " ..#p.. " videos...")
index = index + 100
prevLoaded = #p
else
vlc.msg.dbg("Playlist-Youtube: Finished loading " ..#p.. " videos!")
return p
end
end
end
end
function parse_xml(data)
local tree = {}
local stack = {}
local tmp = {}
local tmpTag = ""
local level = 0
table.insert(stack, tree)
for op, tag, attr, empty, val in string.gmatch(
data,
"<(%p?)([^%s>/]+)([^>]-)(%/?)>[%s\r\n\t]*([^<]*)[%s\r\n\t]*") do
if op=="?" then
--~ DOCTYPE
elseif op=="/" then
if level>0 then
level = level - 1
table.remove(stack)
end
else
level = level + 1
if op=="!" then
stack[level]['CDATA'] = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars(
string.gsub(tag..attr, "%[CDATA%[(.+)%]%]", "%1"))
attr = ""
level = level - 1
elseif type(stack[level][tag]) == "nil" then
stack[level][tag] = {}
table.insert(stack, stack[level][tag])
else
if type(stack[level][tag][1]) == "nil" then
tmp = nil
tmp = stack[level][tag]
stack[level][tag] = nil
stack[level][tag] = {}
table.insert(stack[level][tag], tmp)
end
tmp = nil
tmp = {}
table.insert(stack[level][tag], tmp)
table.insert(stack, tmp)
end
if val~="" then
stack[level][tag]['CDATA'] = {}
stack[level][tag]['CDATA'] = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars(val)
end
if attr ~= "" then
stack[level][tag]['ATTR'] = {}
string.gsub(attr,
"(%w+)=([\"'])(.-)%2",
function (name, _, value)
stack[level][tag]['ATTR'][name] = value
end)
end
if empty ~= "" then
level = level - 1
table.remove(stack)
end
end
end
return tree
end
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Seneral commented Feb 17, 2021

Looking good, will try it out later and somehow attempt to forward everyone there.
(Btw currently there seem to be two copies of the script in there)

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@p3g4asus is it broken OR is it due to some youtube api updates recently?
doesn't seem to work for me though..
Stay Strong

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p3g4asus commented Jun 24, 2021

@p3g4asus is it broken OR is it due to some youtube api updates recently?
doesn't seem to work for me though..
Stay Strong

It still does work for most videos. I recommend you keep your youtube-dl executable file updated downloading it periodically from its official website

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