blog/data/2018-09-02-kodi-linux-youtube.txt

   1 Title: Using the Kodi API to play Youtube videos
   2 Tags: english, debian, video, kodi
   3 Date: 2018-09-02 23:40
   4
   5 <p>I continue to explore my Kodi installation, and today I wanted to
   6 tell it to play a youtube URL I received in a chat, without having to
   7 insert search terms using the on-screen keyboard.  After searching the
   8 web for API access to the Youtube plugin and testing a bit, I managed
   9 to find a recipe that worked.  If you got a kodi instance with its API
  10 available from http://kodihost/jsonrpc, you can try the following to
  11 have check out a nice cover band.</p>
  12
  13 <p><blockquote><pre>curl --silent --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  14   --data-binary '{ "id": 1, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open",
  15   "params": {"item": { "file":
  16   "plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?video_id=LuRGVM9O0qg" } } }' \
  17   http://projector.local/jsonrpc</pre></blockquote></p>
  18
  19 <p>I've extended kodi-stream program to take a video source as its
  20 first argument.  It can now handle direct video links, youtube links
  21 and 'desktop' to stream my desktop to Kodi.  It is almost like a
  22 Chromecast. :)</p>
  23
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