VLC 3.x compatibility patch for 149909-playlist_youtube.lua

149909-playlist_youtube-vlc3patch.lua

--[[
 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
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 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.
--]]

--[[
 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.
--]]

-- 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 (
			 not string.match(vlc.path, "list_ajax") 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 = "http://www.youtube.com/list_ajax?action_get_list=1&style=xml&list="..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).root.video

			for i, video in ipairs(playlist_parsed) do
				vlc.msg.err(i.." "..video.encrypted_id.CDATA)
				if id_ref[video.encrypted_id.CDATA]
				and id_ref[video.encrypted_id.CDATA] == i
				then
					return p
				else
					id_ref[video.encrypted_id.CDATA] = i
				end

				item = nil
				item = {}

				if video.encrypted_id
				and video.encrypted_id.CDATA then
					item.path = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v="..video.encrypted_id.CDATA
				end

				if video.title
				and video.title.CDATA then
					item.title = video.title.CDATA
				end

				if video.artist
				and video.artist.CDATA then
					item.artist = video.artist.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

This worked for me as well, not sure it loads entire playlist yet though...

It doesn't, I was trying to load the Yogscast TTT playlist and it stopped at 200 and wouldn't load more

i want to add a warning, i haven't tested the limits of the scripts but i can say that it only works if the playlist is public only.

oh! this worked for me! thanks a lot.
tried on manjaro linux
VLC 3.0.5

VLC 3.0.9 - I can see the individual songs in the playlist once I open the YT playlist link, but it just skips over all of them.

God it's so nice I love it, thanks bro ( June 2020 )

Broken as of 11 February 2021. It appears that the /list_ajax request to YouTube returns a 404.

Broken as of 11 February 2021. It appears that the /list_ajax request to YouTube returns a 404.

yep, broken for me also :(

Rip you guys..

There's a modified fork using youtube-dl instead, read the README or check the discussion:
https://gist.github.com/Seneral/bd64281ae30a6010e97d956ecd63238e

Hi, i created an updated version, it works for me, feel free to improve it.

https://gist.github.com/bastibeckr/16f57b6bdecf27b772d6433b2090bf61

Hi, i created an updated version, it works for me, feel free to improve it.

https://gist.github.com/bastibeckr/16f57b6bdecf27b772d6433b2090bf61

Thanks! Currently limited to 15 tracks, though.