youtube to xbmc using node.js

youtube2xbmc.js

// based on 
// xbmc api example http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/117046
// node.js example code http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_request_options_callback

var http = require('http');

var options = {
        hostname: '192.168.1.100',
        port: 80,
        path: '/jsonrpc',
        method: 'POST'
};

var responseHandler = function(res) {
        console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);
        console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));
        res.setEncoding('utf8');
        res.on('data', function (chunk) {
                console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);
        });
};


function dorequest() {
        request = http.request(options, responseHandler);
        request.write(JSON.stringify(data));
        request.end();
}

function extractId(url) {
        var re = new RegExp(/.*watch\?v=(.*)/);
        var matches = re.exec(url);
        return matches[1];
}

var data = {
        jsonrpc: '2.0',
        method: 'Player.Open',
        params: {item:
                        {file: 'plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid=' + extractId(process.argv[2])}
                },
        id: 1
};

dorequest();