youtube-watching

A containerized flask app to get the latest video from your YouTube watch history. This is as a workaround for YouTube Data API v3 deprecating "watchHistory".

curl http://127.0.0.1:5678

{
    "channel": "Bad Friends",
    "title": "Bobby's Bank Heist | Ep 129 | Bad Friends",
    "video_id": "7bT2zdzWAM4",
    "duration_string": "1:16:48",
    "thumbnail": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7bT2zdzWAM4/hqdefault.jpg",
    "original_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bT2zdzWAM4"
}

Cookies

To authenticate with youtube, you need to set a HTTP Cookie File.

"In order to extract cookies from browser use any conforming browser extension for exporting cookies. For example, Get cookies.txt LOCALLY (for Chrome) or cookies.txt (for Firefox)".

Install

Pull and run with docker-compose.

cd docker-compose && \
  docker-compose up -d youtube-watching

version: '3'
services:
  youtube-watching:
    container_name: youtube-watching
    image: ghcr.io/matt8707/youtube-watching
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/youtube-watching/config:/youtube-watching/config/
    environment:
      - COOKIE=./config/youtube.com_cookies.txt
    network_mode: bridge
    ports:
      - 5678:5678
    restart: always

Build

You can also build the image with docker-compose.

cd docker-compose && \
  docker-compose up -d --build youtube-watching

version: '3'
services:
  youtube-watching:
    container_name: youtube-watching
    build:
      context: /volume1/docker/youtube-watching/
      dockerfile: /volume1/docker/youtube-watching/Dockerfile
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/youtube-watching/config:/youtube-watching/config/
    environment:
      - COOKIE=./config/youtube.com_cookies.txt
    network_mode: bridge
    ports:
      - 5678:5678
    restart: always

Home Assistant

The "YouTube" Apple TV app doesn't expose artwork through AirPlay, so the Home Assistant apple_tv integration can't show an entity_picture. This is an example to get the thumbnail.

Note: It's now possible without this container https://github.com/matt8707/hass-config/commit/ad624e0da9520a2b304f82a57b92c2b6f289a4ad

rest:
  - resource: http://192.168.1.241:5678
    sensor:
      name: youtube_watching
      value_template: >
        {{ value_json.thumbnail }}
      json_attributes:
        - channel
        - title
        - video_id
        - duration_string
        - original_url
    scan_interval: 86400

automation:
  - alias: update_youtube_watching_thumbnail
    id: '1781428593188'
    mode: single
    max_exceeded: silent
    variables:
      ytw: sensor.youtube_watching
    trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id:
        - media_player.vardagsrum
        - media_player.sovrum
      to: playing
    condition: >
      {{ is_state_attr(trigger.entity_id, 'app_id', 'com.google.ios.youtube') and
      state_attr(trigger.entity_id, 'media_title') != state_attr(ytw, 'title') }}
    action:
      - service: homeassistant.update_entity
        target:
          entity_id: '{{ ytw }}'