Plex Plug-in Kickstarter

[brianscrivener]

Not sure if i am in the right place for this post, first of all i am quite new to Plex forums and i just bought a Plex pass to get all the neat new features :) which are great buy the way awsome work

my problem is im trying to make myself a few simple Youtube plugins from the Plex Plug-in Kickstarter page in Dev tools and with no luck i cant get them to show up on the server or work!! :( can someone maybe help me with this? i think its maybe some code within the app "__init__" file but cant understand the problem.. i will post the code below along with the feed i am trying to set up along with username from Youtube if that helps many thanks for helping guys  :D

 

Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/BFvsGF

 

Youtube Name: BFvsGF

 

Code:

 

from datetime import datetime
import time
import re
####################################################################################################
PLUGIN_PREFIX = “<?= $VARS['prefix']; ?>”
FEED = ‘<?= $VARS['feed']; ?>’

YOUTUBE_VIDEO_PAGE = ‘http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s’

YOUTUBE_VIDEO_FORMATS = [‘Standard’, ‘Medium’, ‘High’, ‘720p’, ‘1080p’]

YOUTUBE_FMT = [34, 18, 35, 22, 37]
NAME          = L(‘Title’)
make sure to replace artwork with what you want
ART           = ‘art-default.jpg’

ICON          = ‘icon-default.png’
####################################################################################################
def Start():

Plugin.AddPrefixHandler(PLUGIN_PREFIX, Menu, NAME, ICON, ART)

Plugin.AddViewGroup(“InfoList”, viewMode=“InfoList”, mediaType=“items”)

Plugin.AddViewGroup(“List”, viewMode=“List”, mediaType=“items”)

MediaContainer.art = R(ART)

MediaContainer.title1 = NAME

DirectoryItem.thumb = R(ICON)

VideoItem.thumb = R(ICON)
HTTP.CacheTime = CACHE_1HOUR

def Menu():
dir = MediaContainer(viewGroup="InfoList",title2=L('Episodes'), httpCookies=HTTP.GetCookiesForURL('http://www.youtube.com/'))
dir = FeedMenu(feed = FEED)
return dir

def FeedMenu(feed=’’):

dir = MediaContainer(viewGroup=“InfoList”,title2=L(‘Episodes’), httpCookies=HTTP.GetCookiesForURL(‘http://www.youtube.com/’))
if '?' in feed:
  feed = feed + '&alt=json'
else:
  feed = feed + '?alt=json'

rawfeed = JSON.ObjectFromURL(feed, encoding='utf-8',cacheTime=CACHE_1HOUR)
if rawfeed['feed'].has_key('entry'):
  for video in rawfeed['feed']['entry']:
    if video.has_key('yt$videoid'):
      video_id = video['yt$videoid']['$t']
    elif video['media$group'].has_key('media$player'):
      try:
        video_page = video['media$group']['media$player'][0]['url']
      except:
        video_page = video['media$group']['media$player']['url']
      video_id = re.search('v=([^&]+)', video_page).group(1)
    else:
      video_id = None      
    title = video['title']['$t']

    if (video_id != None) and not(video.has_key('app$control')):
      try:
	    published = Datetime.ParseDate(video['published']['$t']).strftime('%a %b %d, %Y')
      except: 
  	    published = Datetime.ParseDate(video['updated']['$t']).strftime('%a %b %d, %Y')
      if video.has_key('content') and video['content'].has_key('$t'):
	    summary = video['content']['$t']
      else:
	    summary = video['media$group']['media$description']['$t']
      duration = int(video['media$group']['yt$duration']['seconds']) * 1000
      try:
	    rating = float(video['gd$rating']['average']) * 2
      except:
	    rating = 0
      thumb = video['media$group']['media$thumbnail'][0]['url']
      dir.Append(Function(VideoItem(PlayVideo, title=title, subtitle=published, summary=summary, duration=duration, rating=rating, thumb=Function(Thumb, url=thumb)), video_id=video_id))

if len(dir) == 0:
  return MessageContainer(L('Error'), L('This query did not return any result'))
else:
  return dir

def Thumb(url):

try:

data = HTTP.Request(url, cacheTime=CACHE_1WEEK).content

return DataObject(data, ‘image/jpeg’)

except:

return Redirect(R(ICON))
def PlayVideo(sender, video_id):

yt_page = HTTP.Request(YOUTUBE_VIDEO_PAGE % (video_id), cacheTime=1).content
fmt_url_map = re.findall(’“url_encoded_fmt_stream_map”.+?"([^"]+)’, yt_page)[0]

fmt_url_map = fmt_url_map.replace(’/’, ‘/’).split(’,’)
fmts = 

fmts_info = {}
for f in fmt_url_map:

map = {}

params = f.split(’\u0026’)

for p in params:

(name, value) = p.split(’=’)

map[name] = value

quality = str(map[‘itag’])

fmts_info[quality] = String.Unquote(map[‘url’])

fmts.append(quality)
index = YOUTUBE_VIDEO_FORMATS.index(Prefs[‘youtube_fmt’])

if YOUTUBE_FMT[index] in fmts:

fmt = YOUTUBE_FMT[index]

else:

for i in reversed( range(0, index+1) ):

if str(YOUTUBE_FMT*) in fmts:

fmt = YOUTUBE_FMT*

break

else:

fmt = 5
url = (fmts_info[str(fmt)]).decode(‘unicode_escape’)

Log("  VIDEO URL --> " + url)

return Redirect(url)

 

 

[brianscrivener]

Ps I am also using the latest version of pms for plex home theatre and server if that helps at all?

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[Gerk]

A couple of things to note ... the kickstarter is pretty out of date from what I can tell, so might not be the best starting place.  I'd try starting by looking at other working plugins.

Also things like this are not going to work (they are PHP)  

<?= $VARS['prefix']; ?>

[brianscrivener]

Ok thank you I will give it a try with a working plugin thank you.

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[sander1]

Hello Brian!

Based on a YouTube channel template I created a while back to quickly build some YouTube based channels I could quickly create a BFvsGF channel. I've attached it to this post.

The basic template code can be seen/forked/downloaded from here if you lke: https://github.com/sander1/basic-yt-user-channel.bundle

[brianscrivener]

Thank you ill give it a try now

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[brianscrivener]

Well would like to say thanks for the help guys I finally did it app works flawless on my tv made up some graphics to to with the prank channel on YouTube have a look

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[Gerk]

Awesome, glad it worked out for you ;)