[simonk83]

Hi all,

Apologies for the no doubt stupid question, but I'm hoping someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong here. For now I'm just sending the following url through my browser in an attempt to play the specified youtube video in the youtube plugin. I have grander plans if I can actually get this to work :

Code:

http://192.168.1.23:3142/jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Player.Open","params":{"item":{"file":"plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid='ngElkyQ6Rhs'"}},"id":1}

This gives me {"error":{"code":-32700,"message":"Parse error."},"id":null,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}

I've been googling around and trying various things for the past hour or so but I think it's time to ask the experts as I'm likely missing something stupid. For reference, I'm able to pause/resume with

Code:

http://192.168.1.23:8080/jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Player.PlayPause","params":{"playerid":1},"id":1}

, so the commands are getting through at least.

Any help appreciated, thanks!!!

[Montellese]

It looks valid to me and JSONlint says it's valid JSON as well. But it could be that there's an issue with the apostrophs in the URL. Could you try escaping them either with a backslash or even better URL encode the whole JSON-RPC request.

[simonk83]

It looks valid to me and JSONlint says it's valid JSON as well. But it could be that there's an issue with the apostrophs in the URL. Could you try escaping them either with a backslash or even better URL encode the whole JSON-RPC request.

Hi, thanks for the response. I've tried encoding it:

Code:

http://192.168.1.23:8080/jsonrpc?request={%22jsonrpc%22:%222.0%22,%22method%22:%22Player.Open%22,%22params%22:{%22item%22:{%22file%22:%22plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid=%27ngElkyQ6Rhs%27%22}},%22id%22:1}

But it doesn't seem to matter (I assume the browser is doing that for me anyway).

I wasn't sure if I have the syntax right (for talking to the plugin)? Is it happy with just the youtube ID (though I get the same error with the full url )?

[Montellese]

I don't know how the youtube plugin works internally so you need to figure out how the URL schema works by playing a youtube video from within Kodi and check the log for the path being used. But the plugin://plugin.video.youtube/ approach certainly looks like the correct approach.

But the parse error comes from JSON-RPC and says that something is wrong with the syntax of the JSON-RPC request so it doesn't even get to the youtube plugin.

As mentioned before I would try to play around with the apostrophes i.e. drop them or escape them.

[Milhouse]

If you remove the apostrophes, it plays fine (Star Wars trailer).

Code:

{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "params": {"item": {"file": "plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid=ngElkyQ6Rhs"}}, "method": "Player.Open", "id": "libPlayer"}

[Tolriq]

For information : https://github.com/bromix/plugin.video.y...dpoints.md

Bromix is changing calling way and will deprecate this way for next release

[simonk83]

If you remove the apostrophes, it plays fine (Star Wars trailer).

Code:

{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "params": {"item": {"file": "plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid=ngElkyQ6Rhs"}}, "method": "Player.Open", "id": "libPlayer"}

Hmm, it still gives me a parse error. I tried switching around the "method" as you did there as well.

It's weird, as jsonlint says that {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Player.Open","params":{"item":{"file":"plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid=ngElkyQ6Rhs"}},"id":1} is perfectly fine (it parses), but my browser rejects it.

[simonk83]

I checked the Kodi log and it says:

JSONRPC: Failed to parse '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Player.Open","params":{"item":{"file":"plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video'

Not sure why it stops there...

[Tolriq]

Because you need to url encode the query as Montellese told you earlier & is a reserved character in url ...

[simonk83]

Got it

Grabbed the debug logs and pushed a file from Constelation to see what it was doing. Turns out I needed:

Code:

http://192.168.1.23:8080/jsonrpc?request={%22jsonrpc%22:%222.0%22,%22method%22:%22Player.Open%22,%22params%22:{%22item%22:{%22file%22:%22plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?video_id=ngElkyQ6Rhs%22}},%22id%22:1}

The log entry that did the trick was:


18:33:06 T:140438023423744 WARNING: [plugin.video.youtube] DEPRECATED "plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid=L8nTcqwqdU4"
18:33:06 T:140438023423744 WARNING: [plugin.video.youtube] USE INSTEAD "plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?video_id=L8nTcqwqdU4"

Thanks for the help everyone

EDIT: Ah, Tolriq, I see what he meant now Dammit...