Play youtube videos from commandline to kodi / xbmc.

playYoutube.sh

#!/bin/bash
REGEX="^.*((youtu.be\/)|(v\/)|(\/u\/\w\/)|(embed\/)|(watch\?))\??v?=?([^#\&\?]*).*"
 
ID=$1
 
if [ "$ID" == "" ];
then
  echo "Syntax $0 <id|url>"
  exit
fi
 
if [[ $ID =~ $REGEX ]]; then
  ID=${BASH_REMATCH[7]}
fi

echo "Sending request to play youtube video: $ID"

curl -s --data-binary '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"1","method":"Application.SetVolume","params":{"volume":70}}' -H 'content-type: application/json;' http://localhost:8080/jsonrpc

curl -s --data-binary '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"1","method":"Player.Open","params":{"item":{"file":"plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid='$ID'"}}}' -H 'content-type: application/json;' http://localhost:8080/jsonrpc
#xbmc-send --action="SetVolume(70)"
#xbmc-send --action="PlayMedia(plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid=$ID)"