nursarowar / Alexa_YouTube

Alexa Skills Youtube Audio Music

Alexa_YouTube Skill

Play Youtube Music via Alexa Echo. Alexa_YouTube skill makes it easy to play music and playlist from YouTube.

How to install

features

User ...

• ... doesn't need a YouTube account to groove this skill
• ... doesn't have to wait until video is completely downloaded
• ... can easily create and modify playlists
  • Playlists are identified by numbers
    • Alexa ask youtube for playlist {NUMBER}
  • Playlists file contains only the ID of the songs and thus remains quite small

Dependencies

Youtube API: This skills need Youtube PI service to access on Videos on Youtube for this purpose, the web app https://youtube-alexa.herokuapp.com/ was created. Of course you can also use other services or create.

This WebApp runs on heroku server, the corresponding source code can be found here

Commands examples

• To play song with title {title}

  • Alexa ask youtube for {title}

• To insert the current Song in the PlayList number {number}

  • Alexa ask youtube for add to playlist {number}

• To Remove song from the current PlayList

  • Alexa ask youtube for remove from playlist

• To remove PlaList number {number}

  • Alexa ask youtube for remove playlist {number}

• To play the next song of the current PlayList:

  • Alexa next

• To get all playlists back

  • Alexa ask youtube for show all playlists

  Notes

  Please note that the aws /tmp/ folder is a non-persistent scratch area. This means that your Playlists are only temporarily stored in it. To solve that, please use an other storage service or your own server storage.