searches youtube with your search query and starts playing the first 50 results

playYtSearch.py

#!/usr/bin/python3
#python3

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

# configs
YOUTUBE_API='update me'
KODI_ADDRESS = 'http://localhost: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)

# 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)
	return res.status

# 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:
		id = res['id']['videoId']
		filesArr.append({"file": url})
	requestJson = {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"1","method":"Playlist.Add","params":{"playlistid":1, "item":filesArr}}
	requestKodi(requestJson)

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


clearPlaylist()
itemCount = int(sys.argv[1]) # number of results to add for each search query

for query in sys.argv[2:]:
	# search youtube and create a list of urls
	searchResultsJson = ytSearch(query);	
	urls = []
	for idx, res in enumerate(searchResultsJson['items']):
		id = res['id']['videoId']
		if idx < itemCount:
			print(str(idx+1) + '. ' + res['snippet']['title'])
			urls.append("plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid={}".format(id))
		else:
			break
	createPlaylist(urls)

playPlaylist()

• limit to only 10
• option to add to existing playlist ( no clear )
• multiple search terms

./playYtSearch.py 5 'pitbull greenlight' 'walk kawbs'

• play as soon as the first results comes back
• limit results to certain categories
• player.shuffle?