[PLUGIN] YouTube2

patrickkfkan · December 16, 2020, 12:19pm

Hi everyone,

The new YouTube plugin is available for testing. Source:

https://github.com/patrickkfkan/volumio-youtube2

Volumio 3

Plugin submitted to Volumio 3 plugin store. If you do not see it there, enable “Plugins Test Mode” in http://<volumio_address>/dev. If you still do not see it, that means the plugin has not yet been accepted and you are advised to wait.

~~Volumio 2.x~~

~~The plugin requires manual installation, instructions for which you can find in the volumio-2.x branch of the Github repo:~~

~~https://github.com/patrickkfkan/volumio-youtube2/tree/volumio-2.x~~

~~Follow the instructions there to install it. Also note that on Volumio 2.x you would still need to update your MPD unless you are fine with playback cut-offs and don’t mind seeking not working.~~

The plugin now doesn’t require you to create and provide Google API credentials. You can choose ‘scraping’ as the data retrieval method in the plugin settings (per @dvo’s suggestion). On the other hand, if you want to access your YouTube subscriptions and playlists you created, then you would have to choose ‘Google YouTube API’ for data retrieval and provide your API credentials in the settings.

~~The ‘scraping’ and ‘Google YouTube API’ data retrieval methods each have their pros and cons. Go through the readme in the Github link above and decide which one suits you best.~~

I have named this plugin ‘YouTube2’ since it is not based on the original, now-defunct YouTube plugin, but designed and written from the ground up for easier maintainability in the future (still got some refactoring to do, but giving it low priority because I’m lazy).

You can raise issues here as you find them, and feedback is of course welcome.

Regards,
Patrick

dvo · December 16, 2020, 12:40pm

on rpi4 /4g … with dragonfly cobalt… it’s saying this on my dac >> 96kHz (Light Blue)
scraping …sounds good 48 /32 bit ub40 no cut offs and fast works without update on the 3.14
(but still not really useable seems to be really broken …)
gonna go to my 3.10 now …

Btw it didn’t sound so great with the old plugin mutch higher now of quality…

patrickkfkan · December 16, 2020, 12:51pm

These figures are reported by MPD as it reads the streams. On my DAC it does show 48khz but I’m sure the 32-bit part is wrong. I ain’t too concerned about this though…

Buster-based Volumio will not require MPD update because it already ships with a recent-enough version. It’s still in beta phase though, so I would presume many are still on version 2.8xx.

dvo · December 16, 2020, 1:23pm

@patrickkfkan youtube channel images are not loaded in the 3.10 empty boxes…

patrickkfkan · December 16, 2020, 1:48pm

@dvo,

I’m on 2.853. The images do show up.

Do the images show up in the combined search results, and only disappear when you click ‘More…’?

If you are on Chrome / Edge browser, could you press F12 and then use the Element Selector to select one of the tiles? You should see something like this:

(The element selector button is the top-left button).

On 2.853, there’s this line:

<img class="music-card__img " src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AAUvwnj4mAjSUfn_3RCRSzaQnkx5fb0HSTiBrCEhTLH6=s176-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj-mo" alt="">

Do you spot this on 3.10?

Does the same thing happen when you view playlists, videos…?

-Patrick

dvo · December 16, 2020, 1:55pm

it’s only not showing in the channel the rest shows… yt playlist and yt video are showing normal,
yes, on 3.10

if i put the url as you said in browser bar it loads…
https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AAUvwngMoCZOFlIayfY36XYmXMFkvEfaX-U2om851XTxoA=s176-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj-mo ltt linus tech tips

if i hover over it in element Selector he says could not load…
<img class="music-card__img " src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AAUvwnjBR8yZgaKBTh2ngCQG7jDJD_DoQWFB7NVfKZvW=s176-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj-mo" alt="">
no playlist and video’s just show all images …

i see a <i class="undefined"></i>

patrickkfkan · December 16, 2020, 2:26pm

As far as I can see, in comparison to playlists and videos, channels do not have an ‘artist’ label. I wonder if 3.10 checks for this and refuses to show the images when the artist label is missing.

I have made a slight change to add a blank artist label to channels. Can you update the plugin as follows and report back:

// Go to the directory where you first performed the installation
volumio:~$ cd ~/youtube2-plugin/volumio-youtube2
volumio:~/youtube2-plugin/volumio-youtube2$ git pull
volumio:~/youtube2-plugin/volumio-youtube2$ volumio plugin update
volumio:~/youtube2-plugin/volumio-youtube2$ sudo systemctl restart volumio

If channel images are still not showing up, then I would have to try 3.10 in a VM and see if I can reproduce the issue…

dvo · December 16, 2020, 2:31pm

run the update no change … and volumio can not be higher then 80% otherwise is will crack up…

you could fix this if something isn’t in a parser with a ? mark. i use it mostly with regexp
that’s looks if something is there if not skip… i will look for the 3.10 on the site for you…
don’t use the 3.14 that is broken …
use the version 0.010 Raspberry Pi Volumio-3.010-2020-08-21-pi

gonna burn now the latest official 2.853 (20-11-2020) to test

tested the old version of yt v2 on the 2.853 same issue with it… no show of channels…
what version did you use for testing?

patrickkfkan · December 16, 2020, 4:04pm

@dvo,

It’s not that. I deliberately left out the artist label because it doesn’t apply to channels.

Anyway, just installed 3.010 and channel images do show up, whether or not the artist label is left out:

I tested on 2.853 (rpi 3b) and 2.834 (x86).

Pointing at a tile with the element selector gives me this:

Could you compare the full section on your side?

Also, have you tried with another web browser or clear the browser cache?

dvo · December 16, 2020, 4:11pm

soon we will have some more @patrickkfkan

patrickkfkan · December 16, 2020, 4:13pm

I actually just tested in Firefox and the channels are showing fine.

At least now we can be certain that the plugin is returning correct data…

Perhaps we can wait until more testers come along and report if they have the same issue?

dvo · December 16, 2020, 4:52pm

@Axel @jnreinwa @DoNaLdDuck @queengab @domi @Daraia @trananhvks @duong_nam @cmoulliard @alamoudi.moh
new release of youtube 2

dvo · December 16, 2020, 4:58pm

@framboiseMusicale @TonyK @danielfelix @Ho_Xuan_Thieu @smoneck @tekdrumio @giorgosperi
@Travis_Tompkins @ictin @ppan
new release of youtube 2

DoNaLdDuck · December 16, 2020, 5:53pm

Nice will try it when the kids are a sleep, not working on Volumio-3.014-2020-12-10-raspberry. will try volumio-2.619-2019-09-24-pi. i know the other one is beta report back in a bit

tekdrumio · December 16, 2020, 6:16pm

Thanks for sharing @dvo ! I plan to give it a try

dvo · December 16, 2020, 6:17pm

@DoNaLdDuck i hope that it works for you the 3.10 is my favo… 3.14 is a lot of work…
for the volumio-2.619-2019-09-24-pi you need to update the mpd…

DoNaLdDuck · December 16, 2020, 6:21pm

did you get it working then ?, we need a MIRC channel damm LMAO

dvo · December 16, 2020, 6:23pm

a bit after fixing some links it did a bit but it seems that there is to mutch broken in the 3.14
take the 3.10 and you will be happy @Osdieman @yomismo @LEO_1986 @ogggi @Aster @aseg @billtsig @PieterVoet [PLUGIN] YouTube2

DoNaLdDuck · December 16, 2020, 6:25pm

you got a link by any change ?

DoNaLdDuck · December 16, 2020, 6:26pm

thx