jonhermansen / plugin.video.piped

Bare bones Piped plugin for Kodi

Piped plugin for Kodi

This is an extremely bare bones plugin for Kodi that uses the Piped backend to watch YouTube videos.

Compatible with Kodi 19.5+

Usage

1. install the dependencies
2. build the plugin
3. install the plugin
4. send a request to plugin.video.piped/play?video_id=<youtube-video-id>

Installing dependencies

• Enable adding unknown dependencies in kodi
• Download ttl2ssa
• Install it

Building the plugin

• make a .env file and put pluginVersion="[maj].[min].[patch]" in there (IE: pluginVersion="1.0.1")
• run ./build.sh (will not work on windows, unless you're using wsl)

Install the plugin

• Install the plugin using the Install from zip file option.

Sending a request to the plugin

• I'm so sorry, but I don't actually know how to do this part. I use the kore app for this.

Features

• Almost no "need to have" features are supported. The app will crash if you select it in the kodi ui.
• probably won't run on windows
• hls live streaming using the ffmpegdirect inputstream plugin. (God, this took me forever to get set up)
• subtitles!
• that's it!

Why does this plugin suck?

1. I'm not a kodi addon developer. I have no experience here. This is the first plugin I've ever "written" (more like copy-pasted the code from the example video addon).
2. I'm not familiar with hls. Not at all. This is my first attempt and I hated every second of it.
3. I made this to be barely functional enough for my personal use-case, but I'm open to helping it grow into a more fully featured addon (or for someone to take the code and run with it.)

Contributing

Yes please! I don't have the time to learn how to program kodi addons, my job takes up most of my time. I would really appreciate any help here.

Please please please include types. I know that limits backwards compatibility, but it's worth it.

Warning: the m3u8 library that kodi uses is older than the one available in pypi and has some differences.

Financial support

If you find this addon useful, make a donation to the people @Team Piped

License: GPL v.3