Play trending youtube videos from a specific playlist randomly. The default playlist is trendin music of the week.

playYtTrendingMusic.py

#!/usr/bin/python3
#python3

import urllib.request
from urllib.parse import quote
import json
import sys

# configs
YOUTUBE_API='updateme'
KODI_ADDRESS = 'http://piaddress:8080'

# pre: gets an encoded url pointing to a json endpoint
# post: returns a python dic representing the response
def getJson(url):
	print('Calling url: ',url)
	httpResponse = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
	return json.loads(httpResponse.read().decode("utf-8"))

# pre: gets a keyword
# post: returns the first result of it's search (in yt)
def ytSearch(keyword):
	keyword = quote(keyword)
	url = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&maxResults=50&order=relevance&q={}&type=video&key={}".format(keyword,YOUTUBE_API)
	return getJson(url)

def getYtPlaylist(id='PLFgquLnL59alW3xmYiWRaoz0oM3H17Lth'):
    url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet,contentDetails&maxResults=25&playlistId={}&key={}'.format(id,YOUTUBE_API)
    return getJson(url)

# send a request object to kodi
def requestKodi(kodiReqJson):
    req = urllib.request.Request(url='{}/jsonrpc'.format(KODI_ADDRESS), method='POST')
    req.add_header('Content-Type','application/json')
    req.data = json.dumps(kodiReqJson).encode('UTF-8')
    res = urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=30).read().decode('UTF-8')
    res = json.loads(res)
    return res

# plays queues up a list of urls

def clearPlaylist(id=1):
	requestKodi({"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"Playlist.Clear","params":{"playlistid":1}})

def createPlaylist(urls):
	filesArr = []
	for url in urls:
		filesArr.append({"file": url})
	requestJson = {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"1","method":"Playlist.Add","params":{"playlistid":1, "item":filesArr}}
	requestKodi(requestJson)

def playPlaylist(id=1, shuffle=True):
	# play the playlist
	requestKodi({"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"Player.Open","params":{"item":{"playlistid":1},"options":{"repeat":"all"}}})
	if shuffle:
		# shuffle the playlist
		requestKodi({"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"1","method":"Player.SetShuffle", "params":{"playerid":1,"shuffle":True}})




clearPlaylist()

urls = []
try:
    searchResultsJson = getYtPlaylist(sys.argv[1])
except Exception as e:
	pass
searchResultsJson = getYtPlaylist()
for idx, res in enumerate(searchResultsJson['items']):
	id = res['contentDetails']['videoId']
	try:
		print(str(idx+1) + '. ' + res['snippet']['title'])
	except Exception as e:
		print('failed to print name')
	urls.append("plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid={}".format(id))
createPlaylist(urls)
playPlaylist()