Play YouTube videos in Unity. Uses Invidious to fetch the video metadata and Unity's VideoPlayer to play the video.
Important: The package is now at version 3 and contains breaking changes. If you want to know why this package evolved this way, please see this document
- There might be no public Invidious instances that support API access https://api.invidious.io
- If Invidious instance is setup with invidious-companion, API support might not be available yet.
This package uses the scoped registry feature to import dependent
packages. Please add the following sections to the package manifest file
(Packages/manifest.json).
To the scopedRegistries section:
{
"name": "iBicha",
"url": "https://registry.npmjs.com",
"scopes": [ "com.ibicha" ]
}To the dependencies section:
"com.ibicha.youtube-player": "3.3.2"After changes, the manifest file should look like below:
{
"scopedRegistries": [
{
"name": "iBicha",
"url": "https://registry.npmjs.com",
"scopes": [ "com.ibicha" ]
}
],
"dependencies": {
"com.ibicha.youtube-player": "3.3.2",
...See the package samples for more usage examples. They can be imported from the package manager.
Starting with UnityYoutubePlayer 3.0.0, we're using https://github.com/iv-org/invidious, a self-hosted alternative front-end to YouTube.
Invidious has a community of volenteers who provided public instances, which can be found at https://api.invidious.io. These are great for getting familiar with Invidious, and for testing, prototyping, and demos. Once you're ready for scaling your game and anticipate a lot of traffic, please consider hosting your own instances to avoid abusing these resources. This will also allow you to be in control of your Invidious instance(s), and generally have a better performance by isolating your game users from other users.
For the version used with YoutubeExplode, see the legacy/youtube-explode branch. Please note that it has a different license than the current version.
For other versions, see the git tags.
Starting with 1.5.1, this package downloads and uses youtube-dl locally on Desktop platforms.
Starting with 1.7.0, this package downloads and uses yt-dlp locally on Desktop platforms, in addition to youtube-dl.