php script that retrieves VideoId from youtube for latest video from a specific channel

###Requirements

• You can run a .php file from command line

  To be able to do this install php5-cli by: sudo apt-get install php5-cli

• You know the channelid of the channel you want the latest video ID from.

  Finding the channel id is very easy. It is explained [here] (http://dev.zype.com/posts/2014/11/04/finding-youtube-channel-id/).

• You have your own YouTube Data API key. [Create on here.] (https://console.developers.google.com)

##Installation

1. Download the .zip file and place the .php file in /home/pi/

Or use: git clone https://github.com/Mister-Espria/youtubeid.git

When using git transfer get_youtube_videoid.php to /home/pi/

2. Edit get_youtube_videoid.php by adding the channel id to line 3 and add your Youtube Data API key to line 4

Optional step: You can edit the code to give as output only the video id or the whole Youtube link. Standard it will add a harcoded path which i use to send Youtube videos directly to Kodi mediaplayer.

Now you are all set to use it!

##Usage

Simply run the code by: php -f get_youtube_videoid.php

This will return my hardcoded path + the latest video ID from the given channel in the terminal.

If you want to store it change the command like this: php -f get_youtube_videoid.php >./youtubeid/youtuber1.txt This will save the result in youtuber1.txt in /home/pi/youtubeid/ But you need to make sure there is a folder in/home/piwhich is called youtubeid in this case.

Multiple Youtube channels

I think it should be easy to add multiple channels to the .php file but i don't know how to implement it. But you can just copy it and change the name of the file and the channel id. and use another file as output.

Add crontab

I did setup crontab to execute the command. If a youtuber has a fixed upload time you can let the command execute arround that time. You can also just let it run every hour or anything you want. It wil just overwrite the existing file. [more info on crontab] (https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/cron.md)

crontab example:

3,10,31 16-17 * * * php -f get_youtube_videoid.php >./youtubeid/youtuber1.txt
3,10,31,50 21-22 * * * php -f get_youtube_youtuber2.php >./youtubeid/youtuber2.txt
10,50 16-23 * * * php -f get_youtube_youtuber3.php >./youtubeid/youtuber3.txt

First you need to make sure you have the youtube addon installed in Kodi.

Also make sure that you have the webserver in Kodi enabled. Go to -->Settings → Services → Webserver → Allow control of Kodi via HTTP

I have also set an username and password.

For this we need to install kodi-cli by git clone https://github.com/nawar/kodi-cli Thanks to nawar for this awesome code!

Navigate to /home/pi/kodi-cli/kodi-cli and edit lines 18 to 21 to match your setup (KODI_HOST etc.).

Now you can send a youtube video with this command: /home/pi/kodi-cli/kodi-cli -y FILLHEREVIDEOID

Home Assitant

I added to my configuration.yaml the next shell command:

shell_command:
  play_youtuber1: 'sh /home/pi/youtubeid/youtuber1.txt'
  play_youtuber2: 'sh /home/pi/youtubeid/youtuber2.txt'
  play_youtuber3: 'sh /home/pi/youtubeid/youtuber3.txt

Then i created for every channel a script:

watch_youtuber1:
  sequence:
   - service: shell_command.play_youtuber1

Now you can activate the script and the Youtube video will play on your Kodi media player. Enjoy!!!

I did found the base of the .php file [here] (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6617567/how-to-get-the-id-of-the-latest-uploaded-video-in-a-youtube-channel)

###Problems In case some command does not fire. Check Permissions on the folders and files. All the folders i used i gave all permissions but i don't know if it is mandatory.