Youtube-Playlist LUA VLC (fixed)

yt-playlist.lua

--[[
 Youtube playlist importer for VLC media player 1.1 and 2.0
 Copyright 2012 Guillaume Le Maout - Updated by bastibeckr
 
 Authors:  Guillaume Le Maout
 Contact: http://addons.videolan.org/messages/?action=newmessage&username=exebetche
 
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--]]
 
--[[
 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.
--]]
 
-- 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 (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 = 1
		local playlistID = get_url_param( vlc.path, "list" )
		local videoID = get_url_param( vlc.path, "v" )
		local playlistURL = "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id="..playlistID

		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).feed.entry
			-- /feed/entry[8]/yt:channelId
			for i, video in ipairs(playlist_parsed) do
				-- vlc.msg.err(i.." "..video.encrypted_id.CDATA)

				if id_ref[video["yt:videoId"].CDATA] 
				and id_ref[video["yt:videoId"].CDATA] == i
				then
					return p
				else
					id_ref[video["yt:videoId"].CDATA] = i
				end
				vlc.msg.info("ITEM: "..video["yt:videoId"].CDATA)
				item = nil
				item = {}
				
				if video["yt:videoId"] 
				and video["yt:videoId"].CDATA then
					item.path = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v="..video["yt:videoId"].CDATA
				end
				
				if video.title 
				and video.title.CDATA then
					item.title = video.title.CDATA
				end
				
				if video.author 
				and video.author.CDATA then
					item.author = video.author.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
			if #playlist_parsed == 100 then
				index = index +100
			else
				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

Thanks for your works ! I'll check this out soon !

Hi. Thanks for your effort. I've tried this just now and managed to get it installed on my Debian install. However, only the first video in the playlist will play.
version of VLC is 3.0.12.1 Vetinary -- installed via Snap.

I'm not entirely certain the problem actually lies in the script as the "PL=" field seems to change completely for each video on the playlist on my browser.

edit: on closer inspection... it's not actually the "PL=" field that changes but the block right before it -- seems to auto-generate random characters right before "list=PL...". in any case that makes the url completely different for each video.

Thanks again.

Does not work using 3.0.12.1 (32-bit works but does not get every track in the playlist!)

access error: HTTP 404 error
http error: local stream 1 error: Cancellation (0x8)
http error: local stream 1 error: Stream closed (0x5)
http error: local stream 1 error: Stream closed (0x5)
main error: no suitable access module for insertyoutubeplaylisthere (ALL yt playlists return this. It doesn't matter if I included the actual URL.)

Hey its only loading 15 tracks of a 69 track playlist. Im using vlc 3.0.12 portable cause this plugin wont work on newest version. Anyone know how to make it load all tracks in playlist?

Same here: 15 tracks only

Hi, I worked on a version that use the code source of the playlist to extract the data (I use the ytInitialData from javascript to get the data), it works with /watch?v=XXX&list=XXXX and /playlist?list=XXXX urls and I want to add support of music.youtube.com/watch?list=XXX and music.youtube.com/playlist?list=XXX.

WARNING: if Youtube update there code, my parser will not work any more and will need an update.

https://gist.github.com/Daniel-Mendes/21cff1d94b584769fa05a4905bd272b5