Play and download youtube videos in Unity using youtube-dl and Unity's VideoPlayer, and uses youtube-dl-server to fetch metadata from youtube-dl.

This package uses the scoped registry feature to import dependent packages. Please add the following sections to the package manifest file (Packages/manifest.json).

To the scopedRegistries section:

{
  "name": "iBicha",
  "url": "https://registry.npmjs.com",
  "scopes": [ "com.ibicha" ]
}

To the dependencies section:

"com.ibicha.youtube-player": "1.3.2"

After changes, the manifest file should look like below:

{
  "scopedRegistries": [
    {
      "name": "iBicha",
      "url": "https://registry.npmjs.com",
      "scopes": [ "com.ibicha" ]
    }
  ],
  "dependencies": {
    "com.ibicha.youtube-player": "1.3.2",
    ...

• A minimalistic example:

public class SimpleYoutubeVideo : MonoBehaviour
{
    void Start()
    {
        GetComponent<VideoPlayer>().PlayYoutubeVideoAsync("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PuGuqpHQGo");
    }
}

Or,

• Add a YoutubePlayer component on a GameObject with a VideoPlayer. Set the url in the inspector. The YoutubePlayer will follow the Play On Awake setting of the video player. You can also call YoutubePlayer.PlayVideoAsync.

• In addition, you can call YoutubePlayer.DownloadVideoAsync to download the video to a file instead. See the DownloadYoutubeVideo as an example.

• VideoPlayerProgress allows to display the progress of the video, as well as seeking.

• See Assets\YoutubePlayer\Scenes for more examples.

UnityYoutubePlayer uses youtube-dl for parsing webpages and getting a raw video url that Unity's VideoPlayer can play. To allow maximum platform compatibilty (e.g. mobile, desktop) and to be able to update the library without rebuilding the game, we're using youtube-dl-server web API.

The package uses a free instance of the server hosted on heroku (shared between everyone). For better reliability and performance, it is recommanded to host this on your own.

• Go to youtube-dl-server
• Click the Deploy to Heroku purple button
• Finish the setup on Heroku.
• Make YoutubePlayer use your newly hosted instance: To make YoutubePlayer use your instance of the server, make sure to set the ServerUrl before making calls to youtube APIs, e.g.

YoutubeDl.ServerUrl = "http://your-self-hosted-server.com";

For reference, the default instance is

YoutubeDl.ServerUrl = "https://unity-youtube-dl-server.herokuapp.com";

And you can test it in the browser: https://unity-youtube-dl-server.herokuapp.com/v1/video?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PuGuqpHQGo

For the version used with YoutubeExplode, see the legacy/youtube-explode branch. Please note that it has a different license than the current version.