Plugin and Script API documentation and other useful links for XBMC Addon Developers

None of this is really hidden but I guess it is useful to have it compiled in one place.

The xbmc modules:
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/docs/python-docs/

Non-python functions that are useful for scripting:
List of Built in Functions
HTTP API
InfoLabels
special:// Paths

How-tos (may be outdated):
Plugins
Scripts [1]
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_write_Python_Scripts]Scripts [2]

General Python Info:
http://www.python.org/doc/
http://diveintopython.org/toc/index.html
http://pound-python.org/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python
http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pyco....html#id10

A few useful libs for scraping websites:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson/ (included in py2.6 + )
http://effbot.org/zone/pythondoc-element...ntTree.htm (included in py2.6 + )
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
http://www.feedparser.org/
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/


If you think there is anything I missed that needs to be mentioned just reply to this post and I'll update.

Hey Guys,

Sorry if this is posted somewhere but I am not seeing it. I really like XBMC and I recomend/ push it on all my friends. I like the idea of the central addon control center.
Is there any docs on how this new section affects plugin dev and installation? I have a few plugins like the podcast script (That lets you download and listen to podcasts from pretty much anywhere) that no longer work. I would love to see docs that would give clues on how to convert this script to be usable in the new environment. Any docs on this or HowTos would be appreciated. I do not think the old plugin docs are still valid...or.... are they.....

ask the script author to update it first

Hey Guys,

Yea the ultimate will be when all the plugins are updated but for me this is
a great way for me to crack into building and adjusting Addons and Plugins.
I did find wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Addons_for_XBMC that had a bit
on the changes and some clues enough for doing an update. I was able to
get the Podcasts script back up and running. Whoo hoo!!!

I moved on to MTV and now I am back to stumped. I am getting xbmcplugin.getSettings requires two arguments but only has one error.

I am having fun with this and it again seems like a cool way for me to learn
more about the great xbmc system and how to modify it and get even more
out of it.

So I guess next I need to see where getSettings usage is changed.

from
steveZ

Thanks again guys for all the spiffy work!

You might want to try replacing the xbmcplugin.getSetting() with xbmcaddon.getSetting()

qwarlock Wrote:Hey Guys,

Yea the ultimate will be when all the plugins are updated but for me this is
a great way for me to crack into building and adjusting Addons and Plugins.
I did find wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Addons_for_XBMC that had a bit
on the changes and some clues enough for doing an update. I was able to
get the Podcasts script back up and running. Whoo hoo!!!

I moved on to MTV and now I am back to stumped. I am getting xbmcplugin.getSettings requires two arguments but only has one error.

I am having fun with this and it again seems like a cool way for me to learn
more about the great xbmc system and how to modify it and get even more
out of it.

So I guess next I need to see where getSettings usage is changed.

from
steveZ

Thanks again guys for all the spiffy work!

here is how the getSetting should be used

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Xbmcaddon_module

or pastebin what you have so far and I can look at it

Perfect! Thanks!!!!! They added

pluginhandle = int(sys.argv[1])
xbmcplugin.getSetting(pluginhandle, "MySetting")

That fixed a dozen errors. YEAY! Now MTV gets all the way to the
Playing of the video. Everything else is cool. I get the list of vodeos
and artists and pics. but when we get to playing the video I see errors
for things like rtmp protocal not supported.

Wow this is actually pretty fun!

from
steveZ

Nice - looking forward to see what you come up with

[QUOTE=qwarlock;570753
I did find wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Addons_for_XBMC[/quote]

Um, yep - saw that but unfortunately it doesn't give examples for anything than confluence skin. Would be good to see examples for instance for an addon that gets included in music or video (or both). Sorry - would have left a comment on the wiki page but no facility to do that.

You mean like this:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Plu...your_addon

All I did is click on the plugin source type of addon on the page you linked earlier.

Cheers,
Jonathan