Feature: Youtube / Youtube music

[OmgImAlexis]

Would love to see Youtube and/or Youtube music integration.

[FoxxMD]

Hi there!

Unfortunately the outlook for a youtube integration are not good.

In 2016 google fully deprecated retrieving your own watch history through the yt api.

ytmusicapi exists and could potentially fill this gap but:

• its unofficial and seems to be plagued by inconsistent results
• is a standalone python project without an HTTP api so multi-scrobbler cannot connect to it

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I'll keep looking for alternatives but it's slim pickens

[FoxxMD]

To add a little more to this...

You can use platform-specific scrobble clients to scrobble youtube/YTM, such as:

• Web Scrobbler for chrome/firefox
• Pano Scrobbler for android

Both of these are compatible with scrobbling directly to Maloja.

Or, you can scrobble to Last.fm and then use Last.fm as a source in multi-scrobble in order to scrobble to other/multiple scrobble clients.

[OmgImAlexis]

Okay that'll be good enough for now. At least with the chrome extension I can get music.youtube.com tracks scrobbled.

[FoxxMD]

Revisting this...it might be doable with ytmusicapi now.

• Setup is straight forward and uses info that can be passed as a string
• There is a library history call now
• May be able to use PyNode to interop between the two without too much friction?

There are also some js libraries that may be a better fit:

• node-youtube-music actively developed but no authenticated (library) calls yet.
• youtube-music-ts-api actively developed with authenticated calls but no specific library history calls yet?

EDIT: Should have a working implementation using youtube-music-ts-api with my PR soon

[FoxxMD]

@OmgImAlexis if you'd like to give it a try its available on foxxmd/multi-scrobbler:develop image. Config instructions here

[FoxxMD]

Implemented in v0.4.1