Twitch Beta doesn't work

[attmayMB]

Twitch has a beta with a new URL, https://go.twitch.tv/USERNAME

It is likely that Twitch is going to keep the "go" after the beta is completed, so this request is to support the "go" URL as the regular Twitch URL has worked.

[khloke]

Twitch didn't only change the URL, they also changed their site code and made it impossible (as far as I've looked) to get the channel ID from the page alone. Without the channel ID, I can't play a live stream. I'll have to investigate other methods to do this.

[attmayMB]

Ah, too bad. I was hoping it was something simple. Thank you for looking into it!

[lephisto]

Twitch support is fully broken now, i'll try to dig into this, but i'm not familiar with Chrome Extension development. This is what my kodi spits out:

19:11:48.461 T:1440551680 NOTICE: Twitch: Calling |play| for mode |play| with pos args |[]| and kwargs |{'channel_id': 'undefined'}| 19:11:48.461 T:1440551680 WARNING: Twitch: Warning: Arguments |{'name': '99damage'}| were passed but unused by |play| for mode |play| 19:11:48.848 T:1440551680 ERROR: Twitch: Error |Bad Request| |[400] The parameter "id" was malformed: the value must match the regular expression /^[0-9]+$/| 19:11:48.916 T:1911640064 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [plugin://plugin.video.twitch/?mode=play&channel_id=undefined&name=99damage]

[khloke]

The problems comes from the channel_id. The twitch add-on takes a channel_id to play live videos, and the twitch page used to have this information buried in the HTML, but not anymore. There are other methods but would require more time to experiment with.

[lephisto]

Yes i digged into that, but didn't find a way or any call in twitchs api5 to retrieve channelId by channelName... :(

[antoine-morisseau]

Since the twitch api required an api key in order to use their api, i think the best way is for Twitch Add-on to allow external software like this one to request to start a stream by giving a channel name. I created a feature request on their side to find if it's doable on their side.

[anxdpanic]

@khloke The Twitch add-on will handle channel_name in the play route for the next release. https://github.com/MrSprigster/Twitch-on-Kodi/releases/tag/2.1.0-alpha

[khloke]

@anxdpanic That's awesome. This will solve the problem.

[lephisto]

Installed 2.1.0-alpha - still the same.

[antoine-morisseau]

Well i don't know how the play-to-xbmc-chrome work for Twitch but if it call the Twitch add-on use channel_name instead of name in the query to kodi ?

I don't search too much in the repository, maybe @khloke could answer this question more quickly :)

[antoine-morisseau]

@khloke and @lephisto Allright, i solved the issue.

in the module.js at line 649 the action doesn't work anymore to retrieve the channel_id so i did this :

    if (versionNumber >= 2.0) {
        if (liveVideo) {
            callback('plugin://plugin.video.twitch/?mode=play&channel_name=' + videoId);
        } else {
            callback('plugin://plugin.video.twitch/?mode=play&video_id=' + videoId);
        }

and now it work like a charm with the 2.1.0-alpha 7

[lephisto]

@antoine-morisseau Ah that does the trick. PR?

[khloke]

Awesome, I'll review and merge it soon.

[antoine-morisseau]

Maybe wait the full release of @anxdpanic twitch add-on 2.1.0 version that include the channel_name fonctionnality ?

[anxdpanic]

2.1.0 is PR'd to official repository, pending review

[anxdpanic]

2.1.0 is on official now. Will be changing to helix api in next version. Look up by name is still possible with the helix api, so I don't expect any changes will be required here. 👍

[parasyte]

Twitch support no longer works with the Twitch 2.1.0 add-on.

17:15:23.444 T:1466954656 WARNING: script.module.python.twitch: API version |V5| is deprecated, update to |Helix| by |2/14/18|
17:15:23.896 T:1466954656  NOTICE: Twitch: Calling |play| for mode |play| with pos args |[]| and kwargs |{'channel_id': 'undefined'}|
17:15:23.896 T:1466954656 WARNING: Twitch: Warning: Arguments |{'name': 'andy'}| were passed but unused by |play| for mode |play|
17:15:24.182 T:1466954656   ERROR: Twitch: Error |Bad Request| |[400] The parameter "id" was malformed: the value must match the regular expression /^[0-9]+$/|
17:15:24.273 T:1947242512   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [plugin://plugin.video.twitch/?mode=play&channel_id=undefined&name=andy]

I manually patched https://github.com/khloke/play-to-xbmc-chrome/commit/5f966a6a4ac37a9dc380a6e5bc4374086f22894c into the extension with Chrome Dev Tools as a workaround.

[antoine-morisseau]

Hello, since the merge has been done and the version number has been bumped. Do you know when it will be available/deployed on the Chrome Web Store @khloke ? :)

[khloke]

Released.