sopel-youtube

YouTube link information plugin for Sopel.

Installing

Releases are hosted on PyPI, so after installing Sopel, all you need is pip:

$ pip install sopel-youtube

(Make sure you use the "correct" pip, i.e. the one corresponding to the Python environment where you have Sopel installed.)

Migrating from sopel-modules.youtube

You can simply pip uninstall sopel-modules.youtube prior to installing this package; no extra steps should be needed. sopel-youtube inherits the configuration section originally defined and used by the older versions.

Latest source

If you want to help develop or test the plugin, you'll need to install from source. Clone the repo first, then:

$ pip install -e .

Testing changes

To run tests, make sure you have the development dependencies as well:

$ pip install -r dev-requirements.txt

Run the test suite from the repo root directory:

$ pytest -v .

Getting your API key

1. Go to the Google Cloud APIs & Services Console and create a new project for your bot (or select an existing one, if you prefer).
2. Visit the API Library, find "YouTube Data API v3" (or click here), and enable it.
3. Go to the Credentials section, click "+ Create Credentials", and choose "API key" from the menu. You can enter a name for the new key and limit the IPs it can be used from, but you don't have to.
4. Copy the new key and paste it into the appropriate prompt in the config wizard (see below), or the api_key field under [youtube] in your bot's config file.
5. Optional: If the ⚠️ icon next to your new key in the Cloud Console annoys you, it changes to a checkmark if you restrict the key's access to only the API(s) it needs.

Configuring the plugin

sopel-youtube supports Sopel's interactive configuration wizard:

sopel-plugins configure youtube

The api_key option is self-explanatory (see above for how to get one).

If video "watch" links contain a playlist ID, the plugin will show the playlist info as well as the video info by default. To disable this, set playlist_watch to False.

If video "watch" links contain a comment ID, the plugin will only show info about the comment by default. If you also want video info posted in this situation, set comment_watch to True.

For videos, by default, only the video length, uploader (channel name), view count, and upload date are shown. The included items, and the order in which they appear, depend on the info_items setting, which is a list of keywords. Unrecognized keywords are simply ignored. Supported info_items are:

• comments (comment count)
• date (upload time/date)
• length (duration)
• likes (count)
• uploader (channel name)
• views (view count)