send url to xbmc's json-rpc service for playback on the big screen

sendxbmc.sh

#!/bin/bash
#set url and port to the xbmc box webservice
XBMC_HOST="http://127.0.0.1:8080"

if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
 echo -n "Insert URL: "
 read url
else
 url="$1"
fi

if [[ "$url" == *youtube.com* ]]
then
  vid=$( echo "$url" | tr '?&#' '\n\n' | grep -e '^v=' | cut -d'=' -f2 )
  payload='{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open", "params":{"item": {"file" : "plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid='$vid'" }}, "id" : "1"}'
elif [[ "$url" == *vimeo.com* ]]
then
  vid=$( echo "$url" | awk -F"/" '{print ($(NF))}' )
  payload='{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open", "params":{"item": {"file" : "plugin://plugin.video.vimeo/?action=play_video&videoid='$vid'" }}, "id": "1" }'
else
  payload='{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open", "params": { "item": { "file": "'${url}'" }}, "id": 1 }'
fi

curl -v -u xbmc:password -d "$payload" -H "Content-type:application/json" -X POST "${XBMC_HOST}/jsonrpc"

Is often crash in Raspbmc and restarting Raspbmc:

• upload completely sent off: 158 out of 158 bytes
• Empty reply from server
• Connection #0 to host 192.168.0.107 left intact
  curl: (52) Empty reply from server

Nice little script with curl as the only dependency. Works great on my Openelec box.

Used with realdebrid-cli ( https://github.com/MrMitch/realdebrid-CLI ) i can now stream my files straight to my raspberry ! Thanks for your script !

sadly it does not work for me with vimeo, it sends the string I get a OK but it does not start the video.
I wrote something similar which I tried to modify also from the youtube version to the vimeo version with same result.

Is it pollible that it only works if I am logged in? It would make 0 sense because I can play from the plugin gui videos without logging in.

At least I know that its not my jsonrpc string thats wrong.

I wrote something similar too and vimeo version doesn't work and does not play video

this work:
http://your_ip:8080/jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"Player.Open","params":{"item": {"file":"plugin://plugin.video.vimeo/play/?video_id=12345678"}}}

then url encore it to get:
http://your_ip:8080/jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"Player.Open","params":{"item": {"file":"plugin:%2F%2Fplugin.video.vimeo%2Fplay%2F%3Fvideo_id%3D12345678"}}}

source: .kodi/addons/plugin.video.vimeo/docs/endpoints.md:
` ENDPOINTS

Videos

Play a video via ID

Syntax

plugin://plugin.video.vimeo/play/?video_id=[VID]

Example

https://vimeo.com/121465494
plugin://plugin.video.vimeo/play/?video_id=121465494
`

Is there any way, we can, say, in one command, search for a youtube video and automatically play the first result? I wanna incorporate this in my Raspberry Pi with voice commands, that's why! thanks!