Alexa-YouTube-Client

An Alexa skill, which allows to search, play, save, rate, comment videos on YouTube.

Installation

Make sure you have an account to create new custom skill.

1. Clone or download repository.
2. Execute npm install and npm start.
3. Put YouTube API key to config.json and start app again.

{
	"port": <port of http/https listening> (default: 8034),
	"server_url": <full https URI, where skill will be hosted>,
	"youtube_api_key": <youtube api key>,
	"youtubedlpath": <how to execute youtube-dl> (optional),
	"controlpage_url": <path, where control page will be> (optional, default: "admin"),
	"credentials": { (optional) <if skill will host HTTPS>
		"key": <path to pem file of private key> (optional),
		"cert": <path to pem file of certificate> (optional)
	},
	"login": <login of controlpage> (optional, default: "admin"),
	"password": <password of controlpage> (optional, default: random string)
}

4. Tune Account Linking:

• Get OAuth2 client ID and secret in Google API Console .
• Put them into Account Linking form.
• Put https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth as Authorization URI & https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v4/token as Access Token URI
• Put scopes:

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly

• In Google API Console put redirect URLs from Account Linking form.

5. Put interaction model from interaction-model.json

Usage

• [✔] Alexa, ask youtube client to play my videos
• [✔] Alexa, ask youtube client to play my liked videos
• [✔] Alexa, ask youtube client to play my disliked videos
• [✔] Alexa, ask youtube client to play {query} videos
• [✔] Alexa, ask youtube client to play category {category}
• [✔] Alexa, ask youtube client to play short {query} videos (> 3 min)
• [✔] Alexa, ask youtube client to play long {query} videos (< 20 min)
• [✖] Alexa, ask youtube client which playlists are available
• [✖] Alexa, ask youtube client to play Xth playlist
• [~] Alexa, ask youtube client to play {query} stream
• [✔] Alexa, ask youtube client to rate current video as liked
• Alexa, ask youtube client to like video
• Alexa, ask youtube client to dislike video
• Alexa, ask youtube client to remove rating
• [✔] Alexa, ask youtube client to leave a comment
• [✖] Alexa, ask youtube client to put this video into Xth playlist