[Mine-ish] VLC & YouTube - Play all 100 videos on your playlists

README.md

What

The below is a LUA script that can pull out at most 100 videos from a playlist URL, and add it to your VLC playist. It's basically a clone of the youtube.lua script linked within the youtube-playlists.lua file, but with all the frills removed, because I still want an updated copy of youtube.lua from the official VideoLAN team.

I can't play some videos!

If you're using VLC <=3.0.4, you'd probably not be able to play some videos, especially those from VIVO or otherwise. To fix this, put this youtube.lua script into the same directory as you would for youtube-playlists.lua. This should allow you to watch those videos now.

Reference

• l-aloha's repository: link
• VideoLAN's repository: link

youtube-playlists.lua

--[[
    Minimal code for YouTube playlists.
    Author: James
    With reference to: https://github.com/l-aloha/vlc_youtubeplaylist/blob/f0af373bddfb16a1d2593eed7052b8a6cb4b68c9/youtube.lua
]]

-- Probe function.
function probe()
    return ( ( vlc.access == "http" or vlc.access == "https" )
             and (
               string.match( vlc.path, "^www%.youtube%.com/" )
             ) and (
               string.match( vlc.path, "/playlist%?list=" )
             ) )
end

-- Parse function.
function parse()
    if string.match( vlc.path, "/playlist%?list=" ) then
        local line = nil
        local path = nil
        local name = nil
        local thumbnail = nil
        local tmp = nil
        local items = {}
        local item = nil

        while true do
            line = vlc.readline()
            if not line then break end
            path = string.match(line, "data%-video%-id=\"(.-)\"")
            if path then
                name = string.match(line, "data%-title=\"(.-)\"")
                item = { path = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" .. path, name = name }
                table.insert(items, item)
            else
                -- Thumbnails are found in the next line.
                if item then
                    thumbnail = string.match(line, "data%-thumb=\"(.-)\"")
                    if thumbnail then
                        item["arturl"] = thumbnail
                    end
                end
            end
        end
        return items
    end
end