Detailed VLC Now Playing script for Xchat.

xchat_vlc_nowplaying.py

# @author Weidi Zhang <http://github.com/ebildude123>
# @license MIT
# @description VLC Now Playing script for Xchat
# This script assumes that the password to access your VLC web api page is "123456", but you can change the vlcPassword variable.

import xchat, urllib, urllib2, base64, json, os, HTMLParser

__module_name__ = "NowPlaying"
__module_version__ = "0.1"
__module_description__ = "Detailed VLC now playing information for Xchat by Weidi Zhang"

vlcPassword = "123456" # change accordingly

import urllib, urllib2, base64, json, os, HTMLParser

def hhmmss(secs):
    mins, secs = divmod(secs, 60)
    hours, mins = divmod(mins, 60)
    return "%02d:%02d:%02d" % (hours, mins, secs)

def fetchVLC(page):
	encodedAuth = base64.standard_b64encode(":%s" % vlcPassword)
	statReq = urllib2.Request(page)	
	statReq.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % encodedAuth)
	getVlc = urllib2.urlopen(statReq).read()
	return getVlc
	
def nowPlaying(word, word_eol, userdata):
	getVlc = fetchVLC("http://localhost:8080/requests/status.json")
	
	vlcJson = json.loads(getVlc)
	if (vlcJson["state"] == "playing") or (vlcJson["state"] == "paused"):
		vlcCategory = vlcJson["information"]["category"]
		
		if vlcCategory["meta"].has_key("title"):
			title = vlcCategory["meta"]["title"]
		else:
			title = vlcCategory["meta"]["filename"]
			title = os.path.splitext(title)[0]
			
		title = HTMLParser.HTMLParser().unescape(title)
		
		if vlcCategory["meta"].has_key("artist"):
			artist = vlcCategory["meta"]["artist"]
		else:
			artist = "Unknown"
			
		codec = vlcCategory["Stream 0"]["Codec"]
		position = hhmmss(vlcJson["time"])
		length = hhmmss(vlcJson["length"])
		
		if vlcCategory["Stream 0"].has_key("Bitrate"):
			bitrate = vlcCategory["Stream 0"]["Bitrate"]
		else:
			getVlcList = fetchVLC("http://localhost:8080/requests/playlist.json")
			playlistJson = json.loads(getVlcList)
			children = playlistJson["children"][0]["children"]
			
			for child in children:
				if (child.has_key("current")) and (child["current"] == "current"):
					filename = child["uri"]
					break
					
			filename = urllib.unquote_plus(filename.replace("file:///", ""))
			fileBits = os.path.getsize(filename) * 8
			bitrate	= str(round(fileBits / vlcJson["length"] / 1000)) + " kb/s"
			
		version = vlcJson["version"]
		state = vlcJson["state"].title()
		
		xchat.command("msg " + xchat.get_info("channel") + " State: " + state + " | Title: " + title + " | Artist: " + artist + " | Codec: " + codec + " | Bitrate: " + bitrate + " | Time: " + position + "/" + length + " | VLC v" + version)
	else:
		xchat.command("msg " + xchat.get_info("channel") + " Nothing is playing right now.")
		
	return xchat.EAT_ALL
	
xchat.hook_command("vlc", nowPlaying, help = "/vlc will send VLC now playing info to the current channel")