My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account

Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by amatecha on Saturday February 25, 2023 @04:37AM (#34935284)

Kodi has YouTube? YT was the only reason I didn't just set up a Pi 4 or whatever. Already got one LibreELEC system for the home theatre, but wanted YT for the "daily driver" TV display. I assumed any YT plugin for Kodi would be persistently behind API changes and often not working, etc... is my assumption wrong? Would be great to hear if so haha

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by irusensei on Saturday February 25, 2023 @05:55AM (#34935639)

YouTube nerfed their api in a way that using third party clients is from hard to impossible. Things like requiring users to register api keys etc.

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by deadbunny on Saturday February 25, 2023 @06:23AM (#34935774)

You need to setup your own set of API keys (fairly easy) but it canl break for a week or so at a time when YT make changes that need updates for but it's reasonably rare (one every couple of years).

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by crtasm on Sunday February 26, 2023 @06:48PM (#34951061)

I've never added API keys and it mostly works fine, need to retry a link sometimes (youtube a/b testing things I guess?) and I imagine it can't play age-gated videos.

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by iplist on Saturday February 25, 2023 @10:37AM (#34937419)

I use NewPipe and choose to stream to Kodi. That has worked fine for the last few years, even with an outdated Kodi YouTube plugin.

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