[Sleuteltje]

Thank you for sharing this plugin. Unfortunately I'm having trouble finding my playlist from search. I changed the playlist name multiple times (made sure it was unique) and typed in the exact name of the playlist, but search returns empty. When I only enter parts of the name (or any other random search name for that matter) I do get search results just fine. I also made my playlist public (thought it might be necessary to be found by the plugin), but so far impossible to add my playlist to the plugin and library. What am I missing?

Thanks for your support!

Did you know that..
.. you can also search for playlists by its url or playlist id?

It would have helped if you posted the url of the playlist in question.

You should always:
1) Make your playlist public
2) Set your playlist to sort by newest added -> oldest added. (or check the box; add new videos on top of playlist)

We're gonna use this playlist of mine as an example here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...Ny717Ieg3c
Method 1 - Searching for the playlist directly
1) Go to the YTlibrary addon in Kodi
2) Choose 'Add new playlist as X' (where X is for example TV Show)
3) Paste the url of the playlist in the search bar (which is in the example: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...Ny717Ieg3c)
4) Choose the playlist in question (only one should be visible to choose from)
5) Profit!

Method 2 - Search playlist by its channel name*
*= it could be you need to upload a video before your channel becomes searchable to make this method work.
1) Go to the YTlibrary addon in Kodi
2) Choose 'Add new channel as X' (where X is for example Tv Show)
3) Type the name of your channel (in my case Sleuteltje) in the search box
4) Choose your channel
5) Choose the playlist in question
6) Profit!

EDIT:

EDIT: After some testing this obviously is not a plugin problem but a youtube problem. I'm just not able to find my own playlist via youtube search in the browser either. Google SEO madness. Is there a way so I can add a playlist with it's ID? I've seen you mention that this could be possible by altering the settings files, correct? Would you mind giving me a short tutorial on how I would be doing this correctly?

Please note that if you cant find your playlist with the method above, the below method will probably not work either. Because the addon needs to be able to 'reach' the playlist to grab its videos ofcourse .

To alter the settings.xml file directly, you need to know XML and how to edit it. There are many tutorials online what XML is and how to alter XML.
You can find the .xml files YTlibrary saves its playlists in: <kodi userdirectory>/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.youtubelibrary/Settings/. settings.xml in that directory is for tv shows, settings_musicvideos.xml for music videos and settings_movies.xml for movies. Then you can just copy a <playlist>...</playlist> part and put the new information about the playlist in the xml tags to set each option. The most important one would be to set the <playlist id="ID HERE"..... > ofcourse. If you have done this, the playlist should be available to be altered in the addon like normal.

Code:

Btw, if this addon really helps you, please consider donating a cent or two*. All donations go straight to costs for maintaining the website :). At the moment ~half of hosting costs have been reached in donations <3

*This addon will ofcourse remain free. And dont feel obligated to donate ;). It would be nice tho if we could all share the burden of the small costs the addon brings.