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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from September 2018</title>
   5                 <description>Entries from September 2018</description>
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  10                 <title>Using the Kodi API to play Youtube videos</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Sun, 2 Sep 2018 23:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I continue to explore my Kodi installation, and today I wanted to
  15 tell it to play a youtube URL I received in a chat, without having to
  16 insert search terms using the on-screen keyboard.  After searching the
  17 web for API access to the Youtube plugin and testing a bit, I managed
  18 to find a recipe that worked.  If you got a kodi instance with its API
  19 available from http://kodihost/jsonrpc, you can try the following to
  20 have check out a nice cover band.&lt;/p&gt;
  21
  22 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;curl --silent --header &#39;Content-Type: application/json&#39; \
  23   --data-binary &#39;{ &quot;id&quot;: 1, &quot;jsonrpc&quot;: &quot;2.0&quot;, &quot;method&quot;: &quot;Player.Open&quot;,
  24   &quot;params&quot;: {&quot;item&quot;: { &quot;file&quot;:
  25   &quot;plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?video_id=LuRGVM9O0qg&quot; } } }&#39; \
  26   http://projector.local/jsonrpc&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  27
  28 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve extended kodi-stream program to take a video source as its
  29 first argument.  It can now handle direct video links, youtube links
  30 and &#39;desktop&#39; to stream my desktop to Kodi.  It is almost like a
  31 Chromecast. :)&lt;/p&gt;
  32
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