Play a nice fireplace video on XBMC

fireplace

#!/bin/bash
xbmc_play_url $(youtube-dl -g $(youtube_search.py fireplace hd | sort -R | cut -f1 -d " " | head -1))

xbmc_play_url

#!/bin/bash

url="$1"
payload='{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open", "params": { "item": { "file": "'$url'" }}, "id": 1 }'

curl -v -u xbmc:WUT? -H "Content-type: application/json" -d "$payload" http://localhost:8080/jsonrpc

youtube_search.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
from gdata.youtube.service import *

c = YouTubeService()

q = YouTubeVideoQuery()
q.hd = True
q.vq = " ".join(sys.argv[1:])


r = c.YouTubeQuery(q)

for e in r.entry:
    print "{url} {title:<30}".format(title=e.title.text, url=e.media.player.url)

Dependencies:

• python
• python-gdata
• youtube-dl
• curl

Change username and password in the curl command line in the xbmc_play_url script ("xbmc:WUT?")