If you're looking for a fix, see fork https://gist.github.com/p3g4asus/597050997e01f8fd1fcf473fe6545a4f
It works around this by using youtube-dl, since the lua http interface for VLC is not expressive enough to create a proper fix.
If you're looking for a fix, see fork https://gist.github.com/p3g4asus/597050997e01f8fd1fcf473fe6545a4f
It works around this by using youtube-dl, since the lua http interface for VLC is not expressive enough to create a proper fix.
--[[ | |
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 |
@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
@p3g4asus is it broken OR is it due to some youtube api updates recently?
doesn't seem to work for me though..
Stay Strong