Open axtgr opened 6 years ago
Hi @alex-shnayder , you are correct in believing that the widget related properties have been discontinued in the latest Stremio versions because no known add-on was using them.
Thank you for noticing the documentation issue and showing interest in being a Stremio Add-on Developer.
I will talk to the team about if and when they should be re-added and come back with more details on the issue as soon as possible.
Hi again @alex-shnayder , I've discussed this issue with the team. In order to re-add this implementation we need to validate that it can be used for a legitimate use case.
Could you state the website you would of implemented this for? You can either answer here, or, if you prefer, contact me personally by email at alex@stremio.com
Hi @jaruba, thanks for discussing this!
I had stumbled across the addon competition and decided to participate. For starters I wanted to make an addon for vk.com and then maybe another website. If this particular case is not convincing enough, I'll add a few points that might justify adding the feature:
This is pretty solid reasoning, and to a great extent why we implemented this in the first place.
We're going to bring it back with one of the next updates, we are preparing a pull request as of right now.
@Ivshti @jaruba thank you!
Any news on this?
Sorry for pushing this, it just stops me from making a certain addon.
FWIW I think it would be a good idea to reduce this feature to a single property (widgetPlayer
or renamed to whatever). It would be an alternative to the main streamable properties (url
, externalUrl
, etc.), and the player would always replace the native one. This would cover most real-life cases and at the same time greatly simplify the feature.
I'm developing an add-on for a website that requires its videos to be embedded. The Stream Response doc mentions three properties just for that:
widgetPlayer
,widgetSidebar
andwidgetPlayerStates
. Unfortunately, however I try to use them, they don't work. The video either plays in the default player or doesn't play at all.I'm testing it in Stremio 4 and my guess is that this feature isn't implemented in this version. Is this the case or am I possibly doing something wrong?