Prerequisites:
- You need a firmware that has PHP with CURL support - currently Live/Plus firmwares 0.5.2.1 or later. The plugin will not work on older releases (you need to upgrade). It should also work on Gen3/4 (feedback welcome)
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Python 2.7.9 app.bin for VEVO clips and New Subscription Videos: https://mega.nz/#!wcxFyTgK!IjPCwikRUFMr4i9zrU53C1dqvW-uSC47_R4epfWY9iA (download the file, and extract the app.bin to the root of your USB drive and reboot the WDTV)VEVO clips play nativelly thanks to a patch from nixxo!
Screenshots (plugin with WDTVExt UMSPExtra plugin):
Data for a channel/user:
Categories:
A random playlist:
How to activate:
- Navigate to Webend -> Addons Manager -> UMSP and select Youtube3 from the list to install.
- Navigate to Webend -> Configuration Manager -> UMSP -> Youtube3 to enable and customize (e.g. you can add your account name (this isn't always the same thing as your email address, but you can find it out by going to https://www.youtube.com/user and you should be redirected to something like https://www.youtube.com/user/someyoutubeaccountname. Use this name to log in.) in YOUTUBE_USERS variable). Note: newer youtube accounts no longer have a youtube username associated with them (it's considered legacy) and this method will not work (leave YOUTUBE_USERS blank). Make sure to have UMSP and APACHE turned on.
- If you can't find your Youtube User you can get your channel ID by going to -> https://www.youtube.com/user will redirect you to https://www.youtube.com/channel/xxxxxxxx with a "new" google account
If you have an old account, just visit "My channel" and you'll get your id. Fill in the ID (or list of IDs) into YOUTUBE_CHANNELS variable (multiple IDs separated by comma). - Navigate via OSD to Video -> Media Servers -> UMSP -> Youtube3
Features:
- Press Search on your remote to search for content (while inside the plugin). The results will contain videos, channels and playlists which you can explore
- For your accounts you can view your public data (subscriptions, playlists, uploads). Private data can't be listed or played (the plugin doesn't authenticate the user).
- You get 50 results per page. If you want more, use "Next page" to get more results
Todo:
- Play protected videos (VEVO)
- Canned search items?
- Related videos for a video?
- New subscription videos - difficult to do with this API: https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=3946
Things that will not be possible with this plugin:
- Get a channel's recommended videos - needs OAuth: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16649693/get-recommended-video-with-api-3-0
- Get Watch later videos - needs OAuth: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15891357/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-watch-later-playlist-using-youtube-api-v3
- Get private/protected videos - needs OAuth
Why aren't you using OAuth?
OAuth mechanism is more complicated than the simpler API (obviously). It adds some restrictions on your device - it needs to be manually approved by the user via the youtube interface, it requires correct dates set and needs constant checks to see if the tokens expired or not (in order to regenerate them). I (mad_ady) am unlikely to do it, but if some other developer wants to add it in, feel free to do it.
Deprecated configuration variables (if you were using youtube-subscriptions):
YOUTUBE_VIDEOS_PER_CHANNEL
YOUTUBE_SUBSCRIPTION_SORT
YOUTUBE_PLAYLIST_SORT
Known bugs:
1. You can only get one page of subscriptions - youtube fucked up with the responses. I'm waiting for a fix on their end: https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=7163
2. If the search result is a channel, you can only view its subscriptions and playlists, not uploaded videos. It can be fixed with an extra query if users are interested in it...
Let's discuss problems and ideas related to youtube implementation on this thread.
