Mopidy extension that plays sound from YouTube.

Make sure you already have the GStreamer plugins, especially the "bad" collection of plugins. For example, on Debian/Ubuntu you can install it by running:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad

For older versions of Mopidy (pre v2.0), install the plugins by running:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad

Install the the development branch of the natumbri fork (works without a YouTube API key) by running:

sudo pip install https://github.com/natumbri/mopidy-youtube/archive/develop.zip

Install the default version (currently requires a YouTube API key) by running:

pip install Mopidy-YouTube

If you want modipy-youtube to use the YouTube API, before starting Mopidy, you must set api_enabled = True, and add your Google API key to your Mopidy configuration file:

[youtube]
enabled = true
youtube_api_key = <api key you got from Google>

Other configuration options are:

threads_max = 16
search_results = 15
playlist_max_videos = 20
api_enabled = false

If api_enabled is True but the youtube_api_key supplied is not valid, the plugin will report an error and the API will not be used.

Simply use search for filename in your MPD client or add YouTube URL to playlist prefixed by yt:.

Example video:

yt:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njpw2PVb1c0

Example for playlist:

yt:http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeCg_YDclAETQHa8VyFUHKC_Ly0HUWUnq

If the extension is slow, try setting lower values for threads_max, search_results and playlist_max_videos.

If resolving of URIs stops working, always try to update the youtube-dl library first:

pip install --upgrade youtube-dl

• Source code
• Issue tracker

• Original author: Janez Troha
• Current maintainer: Nikolas Tumbri
• Contributors

• Major overhaul.
• Improved performance.
• Works with or without YouTube API key.

• Fix resolving of youtube:video URIs when looking up tracks. (Fixes: #21, PR: #50)
• Ensure None doesn't get includes in track image lists. (PR: #48)

• Update links to GitHub repository.
• Don't return None values to Mopidy when lookup or search returns invalid data. In Mopidy 1.0, this caused a crash. In Mopidy 1.1, this caused warnings about the YouTube backend returning invalid data. (Fixes: #28, PR: #35)

• Require Mopidy >= 1.0.
• Update to work with the new playback API in Mopidy 1.0.
• Update to work with the new search API in Mopidy 1.0.

• Changelog missing.

• Changelog missing.

• Initial release.