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Youtube playlist importer for VLC media player 1.1 and 2.0 | |
Copyright 2012 Guillaume Le Maout | |
Authors: Guillaume Le Maout | |
Contact: http://addons.videolan.org/messages/?action=newmessage&username=exebetche | |
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or | |
(at your option) any later version. | |
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
GNU General Public License for more details. | |
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software | |
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA. | |
--]] | |
--[[ | |
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. | |
--]] | |
--[[ | |
Youtube playlist importer for VLC media player 1.1 and 2.0 | |
Copyright 2012 Guillaume Le Maout | |
Authors: Guillaume Le Maout | |
Contact: http://addons.videolan.org/messages/?action=newmessage&username=exebetche | |
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or | |
(at your option) any later version. | |
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
GNU General Public License for more details. | |
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software | |
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA. | |
--]] | |
--[[ | |
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. | |
--]] | |
--[[ | |
Patched by Aaron Hill (https://github.com/seraku24), 2018-05-16: | |
The original script was failing in VLC 3.x due to an overzealous probe function. | |
This patch makes the probe function more restrictive to avoid false positives. | |
--]] | |
--[[ | |
Patched by Matteo Federico Zazzetta (https://github.com/p3g4asus), 2020-02-17: | |
The original script was not working anymore because youtube removed the list_ajax interface. | |
Unfortunately the new interface requires at least http GET method with proper headers and | |
they are not supported by vlc. So this version makes use of an external program (youtube-dl). | |
Disclaimer: this version works only under Windows. It can be easily ported but I have no way to test | |
it on other OS at the moment. | |
Installation (under Windows): place this file in the lua playlist vlc folder together with JSON.lua | |
(http://regex.info/code/JSON.lua) and youtube-dl.exe (https://youtube-dl.org/latest) | |
--]] | |
-- 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 ( | |
not string.match(vlc.path, "list_ajax") and string.match(vlc.path, "[?&]list=")) | |
end | |
local function isdef(p,...) | |
if not p then | |
return false | |
else | |
local tb = p | |
for i,v in ipairs(arg) do | |
if tb[v]==nil then | |
return false | |
else | |
tb = tb[v] | |
end | |
end | |
return true | |
end | |
end | |
function Log(lm) | |
vlc.msg.info("[youtube_pl.lua] " .. tostring(lm)) | |
end | |
function get_url_param( url, name ) | |
local _, _, res = string.find( url, "[&?]"..name.."=([^&]*)" ) | |
return res | |
end | |
function try_yt_dl(lst) | |
local info = debug.getinfo(1,'S'); | |
local kk,jj,ll = string.match(string.sub(info.source,2), "(.-)([^\\/]-%.?([^%.\\/]*))$") | |
Log("Trying ytdl "..kk) | |
local link = vlc.access.."://www.youtube.com/playlist?list="..lst | |
local JSON = (loadfile (kk.."JSON.lua"))() | |
local bat_dir3 = "cmd /k \"\""..kk.."youtube-dl.exe\" -j --flat-playlist \""..link.."\"\"" | |
local f = assert(io.popen (bat_dir3, 'r')) | |
local p = {} | |
Log("Exec "..bat_dir3) | |
-- local bat_dir2 = "> \""..kk.."youtube-dl.txt\" \""..kk.."youtube-dl.exe\" -j --flat-playlist \""..link.."\"" | |
-- Log("Exec "..bat_dir2) | |
-- os.execute(bat_dir2) | |
-- local outfile = kk.."youtube-dl.txt" | |
-- Log("Open "..outfile) | |
local p = {} | |
for json in f:lines() do | |
Log(json) | |
local rv, pall = pcall(function () return JSON:decode(json) end) | |
if rv and isdef(pall,"id") then | |
local item = {} | |
item.path = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v="..pall.id | |
if isdef(pall,"title") then | |
item.title = pall.title | |
end | |
if isdef(pall,"duration") then | |
item.duration = math.floor(tonumber(pall.duration)) | |
end | |
table.insert (p, item) | |
end | |
end | |
f:close() | |
return p | |
end | |
-- Parse function. | |
function parse() | |
if string.match( vlc.path, "list=" ) then | |
local lst = get_url_param(vlc.path, "list") | |
return try_yt_dl(lst) | |
end | |
end |
NeuroCPP
commented
Jun 24, 2021
Hey! I have used this extension before, by some Miracle I figured out how to get it to work. I did something recently, don't know what, I can't remember how to get the Extension to work, it took me hours last time and I am not a Code Genius.
Could someone make a step by step for absolutely brain dead people like me and others? We'd really appreciate it, a short video would be great!
Edit: Okay, I figured it out, Mostly. So, I reinstalled VLC, fully wiped all it's data. Went into AppData and Roaming, made the Lua and Extensions and Playlist folder. Putting it all in Playlist there, it Works, except it Doesn't.
So, it won't play 90% of the Songs, I guess it's a region Restriction thing, I'm from Australia though and normal browsing I have no Restrictions on the Songs that aren't playing Normally.
How do I go about making VLC play these 'Restricted' Songs?
Not sure tbh but you could try if other custom software has similar issues with it. E.g. I made FlagPlayer and there are certain copyrighted videos it can't play if it is using a public proxy server (default, though you can easily host one locally). VLC should not have a problem with that due to not being a website, I would expect it to play back all videos. So if you find FlagPlayer can play them, I would file a bug with VLC (or the maintainer of the YouTube watch plugin, not this one). If it can't, it should give you some idea to why (you could even send me a link if it's not clear why and I'll test).
https://flagplayer.seneral.dev/ (Comments are broken again and there's a weird video length bug only on firefox but apart from that videos should play fine).
One thing I will say is that YouTube sometimes just doesn't load a video, both through FlagPlayer or the official website, until you reload. Not sure if YouTube detects foreign traffic by other programs and adds unreliability after some time, but got nothing to compare with to verify.
Thanks! it solved an issue to me (no idea why or how) regarding error http 403 of mi AHK script to extract/insert URLsof playlist to VLC YouPlayTubeList
For those unable to play most videos (403 HTTP error), i have updated the youtube.lua script to use youtube-dl to get the link. Updated script