Youtube Music - Media Browser

Feature Requests
#1

Now with Home Assistant supporting Media Browser/Library content.

It looks like this python project is ripe for the intergration https://github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi

Best of all for chromecast devices we only need to pass the youtube id for everything to just work.

Google Music in HA -- Now as a media player!
#2

Please yes!

#3

This would be amazing!

#4

That would be nice.

#5

a real treat indeed

#6

Anyone have so good python skills and time, would love some help on thisā€¦

#7

Would be nice

#8

A lot of people waiting for a lot of time.for something like that.

#9

Yes please!

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#10

We definitely need this with GMusic shutting down

#11

would be great to have this working. Meanwhile are there any workarounds to start playing playlist on google home from home assistant or node red?

#12

Same here!

#13

Everyone, please vote for this!

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#14

Please yes!

#15

So Iā€™ve started to digg into the given URL on the top. I can login and get the playlists and also narrow it down to the song ID. e.g. O6FrmB81bRU. Pushing that into the browser like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6FrmB81bRU (just an example link) works fine, I get the song, playing on the website, but I canā€™t pass that link to a chromcast / home / generic device.

Does anyone know how to convert that videoId or even the cypher to a playable link?
JKW

#16

@JKW You can use the media_extractor.play_media to give it the YouTube ID and it will play it for you.

I have a mod for the Cast app to add support for YouTube app and supporting playing videoā€™s like we do via the YouTube controller in pychromecast. it unfortunately will only work with video Chromecast devices. Need to work on building a controller for YouTube Music app but that is a larger challenge.

Additionally If you want to have playlists instead of controlling one song at a time we will need to have the YouTube or YouTube Music App

#17

Hi, media_extractor didnā€™t work for me ā€¦ works fine for regular youtube video IDs but did not work for the Youtube Music IDs.

Iā€™ve written a (somewhat) working version with the help of pytube + ytmusicapi. Still a few kinks to work out, but even ā€œauto track advanceā€ is working now ā€¦ This is based on the great work of @troy https://github.com/tprelog/homeassistant-gmusic_player but replaces gmusic with ytube music

Performance is ok, it takes around 3 sec ā€œto thinkā€ between the tracks (actually not to bad, but could be faster). [https://github.com/nficano/pytube/issues/841]

For early adopters / brave alpha testes (feedback always welcome):

Github: https://github.com/KoljaWindeler/ytube_music_player
You need a ā€œcredential fileā€ as explained here: https://ytmusicapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setup.html#copy-authentication-headers
Ultimatly create a file, looking like this:
https://ytmusicapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setup.html#manual-file-creation

I know that this steps is very complicated, Iā€™m considering to create a config flow for this component to ease the file creation. Any other thoughts?

configuration.yaml:

media_player:
  - platform: ytube_music_player
    speakers:
      - jkw_cast2

input_select:
  ytube_music_player_source:
    name: Source
    icon: mdi:music-box-multiple
    options:
    - "Playlist Radio"
    - "Playlist"

  ytube_music_player_playlist:
    name: Playlist
    icon: mdi:playlist-music
    options: ## Should be empty
    - " "

JKW

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#18

@JKW, You have saved us all! :tada:

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It wasnā€™t too bad doing this manually (I think it was easier than getting the oauth creds in gmusic_player) but a config flow would be much appreciated for most users.

  1. Please make your repository HACS compatible :slightly_smiling_face:

  2. For the configuration example, I think you forgot the input_select for the speakers. Also over time, I found it is better to include some sort of default value for the input selects helpers. Please consider the following updated example:

media_player:
  - platform: ytube_music_player
    header_path: '/config/headers_auth.json'
    speakers:
      - jkw_cast2

input_select:
  ytube_music_player_source:
    name: Source
    icon: mdi:music-box-multiple
    options:
    - "Playlist Radio"
    - "Playlist"

  ytube_music_player_playlist:
    name: Playlist
    icon: mdi:playlist-music
    options:
    - "loading"

  ytube_music_player_speakers:
    name: Speakers
    icon: mdi:speaker
    options:
    - "loading"
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#19

Could you have a look.

  • Should already work with custom repository in HACS
  • Default HACS entry should follow soon, brand and wheel pull_request are submitted
  • config_flow to import the cookie works here, but setting up the player is apparently above my capabilities, although Iā€™ve written two other config_flow without isses

I canā€™t wrap my head around the async generation of the YouTube object. Anyone willing to work with me on that?

JKW

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#20

I was able to get authenticated, I had to read through your const.py to see which headers were needed, then put it in the json format from ytmusicapi link. Copying the whole thing didnā€™t work.

I am not able to load any playlists, I tried private, unlisted and public but it just shows ā€˜loadingā€™


{
    "Cookie": "",
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
    "Authorization": "",
    "Host": "music.youtube.com",
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:82.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/82.0",
    "X-Goog-AuthUser": "null",
    "X-Goog-Visitor-Id": "",
    "x-origin": "https://music.youtube.com",
    "X-YouTube-Client-Name": "",
    "X-YouTube-Identity-Token": "",
    "X-YouTube-Page-CL": ""
}