Fixed VLC youtube.lua parser

youtube.lua

-- Apparently YouTube changed some stuff. This makes VLC play YouTube clips again.
-- Replace youtube.lua in /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/playlist/youtube.lua.
-- Ticket @ VLC: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/7471
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-- Helper function to get a parameter's value in a URL
function get_url_param( url, name )
    local _, _, res = string.find( url, "[&?]"..name.."=([^&]*)" )
    return res
end

function get_arturl()
    local iurl = get_url_param( vlc.path, "iurl" )
    if iurl then
        return iurl
    end
    local video_id = get_url_param( vlc.path, "v" )
    if not video_id then
        return nil
    end
    return "http://img.youtube.com/vi/"..video_id.."/default.jpg"
end

function get_prefres()
    local prefres = -1
    if vlc.var and vlc.var.inherit then
        prefres = vlc.var.inherit(nil, "preferred-resolution")
        if prefres == nil then
            prefres = -1
        end
    end
    return prefres
end

-- Probe function.
function probe()
    if vlc.access ~= "http" and vlc.access ~= "https" then
        return false
    end
    youtube_site = string.match( string.sub( vlc.path, 1, 8 ), "youtube" )
    if not youtube_site then
        -- FIXME we should be using a builtin list of known youtube websites
        -- like "fr.youtube.com", "uk.youtube.com" etc..
        youtube_site = string.find( vlc.path, ".youtube.com" )
        if youtube_site == nil then
            return false
        end
    end
    return (  string.match( vlc.path, "/watch%?" ) -- the html page
            or string.match( vlc.path, "/v/" ) -- video in swf player
            or string.match( vlc.path, "/player2.swf" ) ) -- another player url
end

-- Parse function.
function parse()
    if string.match( vlc.path, "/watch%?" )
    then -- This is the HTML page's URL
        -- fmt is the format of the video
        -- (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_codecs)
        fmt = get_url_param( vlc.path, "fmt" )
        while true do
            -- Try to find the video's title
            line = vlc.readline()
            if not line then break end
            if string.match( line, "<meta name=\"title\"" ) then
                _,_,name = string.find( line, "content=\"(.-)\"" )
                name = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars( name )
                name = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars( name )
            end
            if string.match( line, "<meta name=\"description\"" ) then
               -- Don't ask me why they double encode ...
                _,_,description = string.find( line, "content=\"(.-)\"" )
                description = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars( description )
                description = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars( description )
            end
            if string.match( line, "<meta property=\"og:image\"" ) then
                _,_,arturl = string.find( line, "content=\"(.-)\"" )
            end
            if string.match( line, " rel=\"author\"" ) then
                _,_,artist = string.find( line, "href=\"/user/([^\"]*)\"" )
            end
            -- JSON parameters, also formerly known as "swfConfig",
            -- "SWF_ARGS", "swfArgs", "PLAYER_CONFIG" ...
            if string.match( line, "playerConfig" ) then
                if not fmt then
                    prefres = get_prefres()
                    if prefres >= 0 then
                        fmt_list = string.match( line, "\"fmt_list\": \"(.-)\"" )
                        if fmt_list then
                            for itag,height in string.gmatch( fmt_list, "(%d+)\\/%d+x(%d+)\\/[^,]+" ) do
                                -- Apparently formats are listed in quality
                                -- order, so we take the first one that works,
                                -- or fallback to the lowest quality
                                fmt = itag
                                if tonumber(height) <= prefres then
                                    break
                                end
                            end
                        end
                    end
                end

                url_map = string.match( line, "\"url_encoded_fmt_stream_map\": \"(.-)\"" )
                if url_map then
                    -- FIXME: do this properly
                    url_map = string.gsub( url_map, "\\u0026", "&" )
                    for url,itag in string.gmatch( url_map, "url=([^&,]+)[^,]*&itag=(%d+)" ) do
                        -- Apparently formats are listed in quality order,
                        -- so we can afford to simply take the first one
                        if not fmt or tonumber( itag ) == tonumber( fmt ) then
                            url = vlc.strings.decode_uri( url )
                            path = url
                            break
                        end
                    end
                end
            -- There is also another version of the parameters, encoded
            -- differently, as an HTML attribute of an <object> or <embed>
            -- tag; but we don't need it now
            end
        end

        -- No path? Try again using YouTube's get_video_info page
        if not path then
          video_id = get_url_param( vlc.path, "v" )
          local fd, msg = vlc.stream( string.format('http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?&video_id=%s&el=detailpage&ps=default&eurl=&gl=US&hl=en', video_id) )
          if not fd then
              vlc.msg.warn(msg)
          else
              local line = fd:readline()
              while line ~= nil do
                for url,itag in string.gmatch( vlc.strings.decode_uri(line), "url=([^&,]+)[^,]*&itag=(%d+)" ) do
                  url = vlc.strings.decode_uri(url)
                  path = url
                  break
                end
                line = fd:readline()
              end
          end
        end

        if not path then
            vlc.msg.err( "Couldn't extract youtube video URL, please check for updates to this script" )
            return { }
        end

        if not arturl then
            arturl = get_arturl()
        end

        return { { path = path; name = name; description = description; artist = artist; arturl = arturl } }
    else -- This is the flash player's URL
        video_id = get_url_param( vlc.path, "video_id" )
        if not video_id then
            _,_,video_id = string.find( vlc.path, "/v/([^?]*)" )
        end
        if not video_id then
            vlc.msg.err( "Couldn't extract youtube video URL" )
            return { }
        end
        fmt = get_url_param( vlc.path, "fmt" )
        if fmt then
            format = "&fmt=" .. fmt
        else
            format = ""
        end
        return { { path = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v="..video_id..format } }
    end
end

Wow! It really worked man.
You rock.
Good job.
Keep it up.
Cheers. :)

now, if only someone could fix the parsers for pornhub,youporn and redtube...

http://addons.videolan.org/index.php?xcontentmode=904

---

also, could someone write parsers for the rest of the pornhub family other than just these three?

(ie. ) tube8/pornmd/spankwire/keezmovies/xtube/extremetube ...

plus the gay versions:
http://www.pornhub.com/gayporn
http://www.redtube.com/redtube/gay
http://www.youporngay.com/
http://www.gaytube.com/
http://www.tube8.com/gay/
http://www.xtube.com/?splash=false&iAm=M&ilike=M
http://www.pornmd.com/gay
http://www.spankwire.com/home/Gay
http://www.extremetube.com/gay

thanks...

It's not working for me. The playlist gets the name of the video, but it just flickers the play and stops. It used to work great a couple months ago about. What happen?

http://addons.videolan.org/content/show.php/Pornhub+Fapper?content=174726