sampotts/plyr

Allow playing Youtube channel's live stream

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#789 opened on Feb 15, 2018

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Description

This is more of a feature request. It would be nice to allow Youtube plugin to support playing channel's live stream. Live stream is currently in the following URL

https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=channel-id

I think it currently uses Youtube IFrame API and passes video id to it, but that doesn't work with the live streams. It would be nice to check if the URL includes live stream and if it does, don't fetch video using the video id, just ignore it. In that case, Youtube will use the src attribute from the iframe. Of course there's a need for an option to change the url dynamically as well.

Expected behaviour

Allow playing Youtube live stream

Actual behaviour

It doesn't exist?

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Players affected:

  • HTML5 Video
  • HTML5 Audio
  • YouTube
  • Vimeo

Steps to reproduce

Relevant links

Example in the docs: https://developers.google.com/youtube/iframe_api_reference#Examples

Contributor guide

Tech stack
javascripthtml
Domain
frontend
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-3 hours
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
mostly clear
Prerequisites
JavaScriptYouTube IFrame APIPlyr plugin structure
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
50
Research direction
First, examine the YouTube plugin source code in the Plyr repository (likely src/js/plugins/youtube.js) to understand how video IDs are currently extracted and passed to the IFrame API. Then, implement logic to detect if the URL contains 'live stream?channel=' and, if so, set the iframe's src attribute directly without using the video ID. Also consider adding an option to dynamically update the URL. Refer to the YouTube IFrame API documentation for live stream embedding.