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
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": "3.3.0"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": "3.3.0",
...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.