[RELEASE] Hulu (Video) Plugin for XBMC

~~Voinage~~ · 2008-12-14 16:34

It is possible Rw just a lot of " Os " checking so unless you really want it - I wouldn`t advise it.

Once my unified plugin is released i`ll look at it in further detail - edited that.
It`s going to be a nightmare.

angrycamel · 2008-12-14 17:13

rwparris2 Wrote:Nope, not possible.

Ok, well it would have been nice.

**rwparris2** · 2008-12-14 23:32

angrycamel Wrote:Is it possible to have the shows integrate with the TV Shows library view of XBMC? For instance, when I select Family Guy I would like for it to show all seasons and episodes whether I have a copy of it on my server or not. When I select an episode to play, it would pick the local file if it exists and stream from Hulu if not. Is this level of integration possible with a video plugin with the content set to tv?

I am looking forward to the next version.

Voinage Wrote:It is possible Rw just a lot of " Os " checking so unless you really want it - I wouldn`t advise it.

Once my unified plugin is released i`ll do it.

I can think of one really complex way of doing it that probably wouldn't work well at all. Feel free to PM me/make a new thread if you want to brainstorm on the possibilities of this, because I'd really like it as well... but not so much that I want to code it Laugh

I'm interested to see how you're planning on launching streams from inside the main library.

Quote:Ok, well it would have been nice.

We'll have to see what Voinage has in store for us.

PS -- I was working on scraping the site, but I hit a snag.
After I get the content ID, when I try to grab a url like http://r.hulu.com/videos?content_id=12244285 I get a 404 unless I open it in my browser first, then everything is OK for the entire season of that episode... Anyone have any ideas?

MDPauley · 2008-12-14 23:41

rwparris2 Wrote:PS -- I was working on scraping the site, but I hit a snag.
After I get the content ID, when I try to grab a url like http://r.hulu.com/videos?content_id=12244285 I get a 404 unless I open it in my browser first, then everything is OK for the entire season of that episode... Anyone have any ideas?

Need a cookie maybe? From boxee's hulu app

Code:

import random

import os.path

import urllib2

import Cookie

import xbmc

import xbmcgui

import datetime

def login_hulu(user, password):

    url = 'https://secure.hulu.com/account/authenticate?' + `random.randint(100000000, 999999999)`

    user_agent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)'

    headers = { 'User-Agent': user_agent,

            'Cookie': 'login=' + user + '; password=' + password + ';',

            'Referer':  'http://www.hulu.com/'}

    req = urllib2.Request(url, None, headers)

    response = urllib2.urlopen(req)

    C = Cookie.SimpleCookie()

    C.load(response.info()['Set-Cookie']);

    return C['_hulu_session_id'].value, C['_hulu_uid'].value

username = xbmc.getInfoLabel('App.String(username)')

password = xbmc.getInfoLabel('App.String(password)')

session = ""

uid = ""

if username and password:

    session, uid = login_hulu(xbmc.getInfoLabel('App.String(username)'), xbmc.getInfoLabel('App.String(password)'))

if not session:

    xbmc.executebuiltin('App.Reset(expiry)')

    xbmc.executebuiltin('App.Reset(username)')

    xbmc.executebuiltin('App.Reset(password)')

    dialog = xbmcgui.Dialog()

    dialog.ok('hulu', 'Login failed.', 'Wrong username or password.')

else:

    print session

    print uid

    xbmc.executebuiltin('App.SetString(session,%s)' % session)

    xbmc.executebuiltin('App.SetString(uid,%s)' % uid)

    today = datetime.date.today()

    xbmc.executebuiltin('App.SetString(expiry,%s)' % today)

JCDoe · 2008-12-15 00:44

Ok, I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I downloaded this plugin, as well as the latest t3ch build (dated 12/7/08), and many of the videos don't work. For instance, I attempted to play the Colbert Report from 12/8, and nothing happened. On my pc in a web browser, however, I had no trouble.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

timdog82001 · 2008-12-15 01:00

angrycamel Wrote:Is it possible to have the shows integrate with the TV Shows library view of XBMC? For instance, when I select Family Guy I would like for it to show all seasons and episodes whether I have a copy of it on my server or not. When I select an episode to play, it would pick the local file if it exists and stream from Hulu if not.

It wouldn't really make sense for it to have ALL seasons/episodes. Hulu usually only has a few of the most recent episodes, removing older episodes as new ones come in. Anyway, I actually think that rather than the way you're proposing, I would like it better if it were to have an additional entry in the context menu or video info screen or something along those lines, labeled "Watch tvshowname on Hulu." It could then bring you to a window with separate categories for clips, webisodes, episodes, etc available on hulu. Of course one problem with this is the context menu is very full already.

**rwparris2** · 2008-12-15 02:17

timdog82001 Wrote:It wouldn't really make sense for it to have ALL seasons/episodes. Hulu usually only has a few of the most recent episodes, removing older episodes as new ones come in. Anyway, I actually think that rather than the way you're proposing, I would like it better if it were to have an additional entry in the context menu or video info screen or something along those lines, labeled "Watch tvshowname on Hulu." It could then bring you to a window with separate categories for clips, webisodes, episodes, etc available on hulu. Of course one problem with this is the context menu is very full already.

If you want this you can show support on trac, where I asked for it a few days ago.
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/5442

Burncycle · 2008-12-15 02:36

Zoltar, fantastic plugin! Thank you so much for taking this on. I thought I'd post some observations on useage. Let me know if you need logs.

If you watch a show all the way to the end, it freezes on the last frame and I need to restart the box.

No rewinding, and any fastforwarding quickly runs down the buffer which causes a lot of glitches. Typically the audio and video fall out of sync for a while.

I was watching one tv show and had it paused for a really long time (20 min maybe) and when I resumed, it played for about a second and quit to menu. I was able to replay it fine, but without the aforementioned ability to fastforward,it was a bit of a drag.

Similarly, if you navigate to the flash file, but wait a long time to start it, then it won't work. You have to back up a menu and go back in. I suspect that Hulu is using some expiring token that lasts 15mins or so.

Lastly, some shows will list the episodes, but when you select it, nothing happens. I've noticed this with Mythbusters.

That's what I've seen so far. Again, fantastic plugin and thank for your efforts. Let me know if you need anything.

PS. I'm a US user.

angrycamel · 2008-12-15 03:17

rwparris2 Wrote:I can think of one really complex way of doing it that probably wouldn't work well at all. Feel free to PM me/make a new thread if you want to brainstorm on the possibilities of this, because I'd really like it as well... but not so much that I want to code it

I'm interested to see how you're planning on launching streams from inside the main library.

We'll have to see what Voinage has in store for us.

Sounds good. Let me know if there is any way I can help. I have never written Python specifically but I have years of experience in many other languages. (I even wrote an app for the Xbox a while back called Mimesis)

Rob Loach · 2008-12-15 04:29

You should really add this to the SVN Repo Installer: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=29911

~~Voinage~~ Banned Posts: 853 Joined: Mar 2008 Location: England	2008-12-14 16:34 Post: #31 It is possible Rw just a lot of " Os " checking so unless you really want it - I wouldn`t advise it. Once my unified plugin is released i`ll look at it in further detail - edited that. It`s going to be a nightmare. (This post was last modified: 2008-12-14 23:35 by Voinage.)
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angrycamel Senior Member Posts: 226 Joined: Dec 2008 Reputation: 7	2008-12-14 17:13 Post: #32 rwparris2 Wrote:Nope, not possible. Ok, well it would have been nice.
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JCDoe Junior Member Posts: 25 Joined: Dec 2008 Reputation: 0	2008-12-15 00:44 Post: #35 Ok, I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I downloaded this plugin, as well as the latest t3ch build (dated 12/7/08), and many of the videos don't work. For instance, I attempted to play the Colbert Report from 12/8, and nothing happened. On my pc in a web browser, however, I had no trouble. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
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Rob Loach Junior Member Posts: 25 Joined: Jul 2008 Reputation: 0 Location: Toronto, ON	2008-12-15 04:29 SVN Repository Installer Post: #40 You should really add this to the SVN Repo Installer: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=29911
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