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Youtube-Playlist LUA VLC (fixed)
--[[
Youtube playlist importer for VLC media player 1.1 and 2.0
Copyright 2012 Guillaume Le Maout - Updated by bastibeckr
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, [email protected]:
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.
--]]
-- Helper function to get a parameter's value in a URL
function get_url_param( url, name )
local _, _, res = string.find( url, "[&?]"..name.."=([^&]*)" )
return res
end
-- 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 (string.match(vlc.path, "list="))
end
-- Parse function.
function parse()
if string.match( vlc.path, "list=" ) then
local playlist_parsed, playlistData, line, s, item
local p = {}
local id_ref = {}
local index = 1
local playlistID = get_url_param( vlc.path, "list" )
local videoID = get_url_param( vlc.path, "v" )
local playlistURL = "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id="..playlistID
while true do
playlistData = ""
line = ""
s = nil
s = vlc.stream(playlistURL.."&index="..index)
while line do
playlistData = playlistData..line
line = s:readline()
end
playlist_parsed = nil
playlist_parsed = parse_xml(playlistData).feed.entry
-- /feed/entry[8]/yt:channelId
for i, video in ipairs(playlist_parsed) do
-- vlc.msg.err(i.." "..video.encrypted_id.CDATA)
if id_ref[video["yt:videoId"].CDATA]
and id_ref[video["yt:videoId"].CDATA] == i
then
return p
else
id_ref[video["yt:videoId"].CDATA] = i
end
vlc.msg.info("ITEM: "..video["yt:videoId"].CDATA)
item = nil
item = {}
if video["yt:videoId"]
and video["yt:videoId"].CDATA then
item.path = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v="..video["yt:videoId"].CDATA
end
if video.title
and video.title.CDATA then
item.title = video.title.CDATA
end
if video.author
and video.author.CDATA then
item.author = video.author.CDATA
end
if video.thumbnail
and video.thumbnail.CDATA then
item.arturl = video.thumbnail.CDATA
end
if video.description
and video.description.CDATA then
item.description = video.description.CDATA
end
--~ item.rating = video.rating
table.insert (p, item)
end
if #playlist_parsed == 100 then
index = index +100
else
return p
end
end
end
end
function parse_xml(data)
local tree = {}
local stack = {}
local tmp = {}
local tmpTag = ""
local level = 0
table.insert(stack, tree)
for op, tag, attr, empty, val in string.gmatch(
data,
"<(%p?)([^%s>/]+)([^>]-)(%/?)>[%s\r\n\t]*([^<]*)[%s\r\n\t]*") do
if op=="?" then
--~ DOCTYPE
elseif op=="/" then
if level>0 then
level = level - 1
table.remove(stack)
end
else
level = level + 1
if op=="!" then
stack[level]['CDATA'] = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars(
string.gsub(tag..attr, "%[CDATA%[(.+)%]%]", "%1"))
attr = ""
level = level - 1
elseif type(stack[level][tag]) == "nil" then
stack[level][tag] = {}
table.insert(stack, stack[level][tag])
else
if type(stack[level][tag][1]) == "nil" then
tmp = nil
tmp = stack[level][tag]
stack[level][tag] = nil
stack[level][tag] = {}
table.insert(stack[level][tag], tmp)
end
tmp = nil
tmp = {}
table.insert(stack[level][tag], tmp)
table.insert(stack, tmp)
end
if val~="" then
stack[level][tag]['CDATA'] = {}
stack[level][tag]['CDATA'] = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars(val)
end
if attr ~= "" then
stack[level][tag]['ATTR'] = {}
string.gsub(attr,
"(%w+)=([\"'])(.-)%2",
function (name, _, value)
stack[level][tag]['ATTR'][name] = value
end)
end
if empty ~= "" then
level = level - 1
table.remove(stack)
end
end
end
return tree
end
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neetch1 commented Mar 14, 2021

Hey its only loading 15 tracks of a 69 track playlist. Im using vlc 3.0.12 portable cause this plugin wont work on newest version. Anyone know how to make it load all tracks in playlist?

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pkutaj commented Mar 20, 2021

Same here: 15 tracks only

@Daniel-Mendes
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Daniel-Mendes commented Jun 8, 2021

Hi, I worked on a version that use the code source of the playlist to extract the data (I use the ytInitialData from javascript to get the data), it works with /watch?v=XXX&list=XXXX and /playlist?list=XXXX urls and I want to add support of music.youtube.com/watch?list=XXX and music.youtube.com/playlist?list=XXX.

WARNING: if Youtube update there code, my parser will not work any more and will need an update.

https://gist.github.com/Daniel-Mendes/21cff1d94b584769fa05a4905bd272b5

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