youtube

A platform which give you info about the newest video on a channel.

This uses web scraping, a better implementation will be to use the API.

BREAKING CHANGE

Video views and stars are now reported. As a result any automations triggered by state will now be triggered when the number of views or stars changes. To avoid this, add the url attribute to the trigger so that the automation is only triggered when the reported url changes ie:

trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: sensor.franck_nijhof
    attribute: url

Installation

HACS

This repository supports installing through HACS.

Manual

To get started put all the files from/custom_components/youtube/ here: <config directory>/custom_components/youtube/

Example configuration.yaml

Using the old style channel id.

sensor:
  platform: youtube
  channel_id: UCZ2Ku6wrhdYDHCaBzLaA3bw

Or using new style channel name (Note: You need to enclose the channel name in quotes!)

sensor:
  platform: youtube
  channel_id: '@frenck'

Configuration variables

key	type	description
platform (Required)	string	The platform name.
channel_id (Required)	string	The Channel ID of the Youtube channel.

State and Attributes

State

• The name of the most recent video

Attributes

• url: URL of the most recent video
• content_id: the content ID (useful for sending to certain media players)
• published: The time and date the video was published
• stars: The 'stars' recieved on youtube. (This is all reactions both 👍 and 👎 combined)
• views: the number of video views
• stream: If the video was streamed live
• stream_start: datetime of the start of a live stream
• live: If the video is live now
• channel_is_live: If any video on the channel is live
• channel_image: URL of the channel logo image

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