2013-11-13, 16:55
(2013-11-12, 19:02)schlameel Wrote: Access Linked Videos, Channels, and Playlists
Ever watch a video and the host references another video or channel or playlist and says "The links are in the description", then get frustrated at not being able to get to those resources? Now you can.
I have modified the plugin to extract links from the description and make them available. You can access the source at https://github.com/schlameel/youtube-xbmc-plugin or get the ZIP at http://github.com/schlameel/youtube-xbmc...master.zip
To access linked resources, enable it in Settings -> Advanced -> Linked Resources. Then on any video in the listing, open the context menu and, if the video has links, select 'Linked Resources'. A list of:will appear if there are any of those categories.
- Linked Channels
- Linked Playlists
- Linked Videos
Please offer any feedback, suggestions, requests, or questions.
Known Limitations:Installation (for those unfamiliar with manual installation):
- Sometimes the links people put in the descriptions of their videos are bad or incorrect. For performance reasons, I don't validate the links. I've tried to make it fail gracefully.
- English only (I retained none of my high school French)
- Download the ZIP file and unzip to a folder
- In the XMBC addons folder create a folder 'plugin.video.youtube.linked' (The addons folder should be the same as HERE but replace 'userdata' with 'addons')
- Copy the contents of the 'plugin' folder from the ZIP file to the newly created 'plugin.video.youtube.linked' folder. So, for example, you will have '.../addons/plugin.video.youtube.linked/default.py' and '.../addons/plugin.video.youtube.linked/resources/settings.xml'
- Enable Add-on Settings -> Advanced -> Linked Resources
Thanks for this, but it doesn't create anything in addon_data for it, even if I enter my username. I get "Script Failed" and "Could not Connect to the Network Server" but I presume that's because it hasn't got my login details entered, which I was going to copy from the normal youtube settings xml into the one for this but there isn't one.