Kodi YouTube plugin broken – *FIX*

46 thoughts to “Kodi YouTube plugin broken – *FIX*”

1. thank you so much 😀

2. Thank you as well !

3. You’re the man, thanks a bunch….that worked like a charm!
   The only addition here, if you allow me:
   I installed your fix to my android box, from a “SMB” share on my laptop, after I downloaded the Zip file there, which worked really well. This is an option when you go to “install from Zip” then you will see the “SMB” or “window network”, browse to your share on your computer and Voila, thank you!

4. I didn’t include the source as some people have the zip on a samba share, some upload it to their kodi machine, some have afp shares and I myself have mine shared over NFS. I therefore left the specific location choice down to the individual user. Each user tends to install addons a different way. I’ve always used NFS with kodi and used to upload addons to my profile directory on older XBMC

5. Brilliant – thank you so much for this. YouTube is back!

6. maybe you can help me out. i installed this version and after deleting the plugin directory from an android box running kodi and bromix’s youtube version. i was getting ‘unknown kind”‘ error. i installed the rasp rabbit version but it gave me no option to login. it was enabled in the settings menu radio button. so i enabled the logout option and it said “login failed” when i tried to logout. so i can not log in or out and still get “unknown kind error”

7. Not working with vids tagged as ‘inappropiate’.

   Thanx!

8. Nice one mate! Working perfectly 🙂

9. Did the original plugin work OK with inappropriate content? I never watch any on the media centre so no idea if this problem has always existed.

10. Great stuff. Hope you get on OK with t from now on. If it breaks again I’ll update this post.

11. Top dude, been scratching my head for days til i discovered this post.. 100% working.. Thank you millions.!!

12. You are very welcome.

13. Confirmed fix. Simple install. Much appreciated!

14. Glad it worked for you Wayne. 🙂

15. When I click “Popular Right Now”, “Unknown Kind” error pop up.

16. Just tried the Popular Right Now on my Kodi and it works fine, did you follow all of the steps?

17. Than you mate, you return to my OSMC youtube world! 😀

18. For those out there who’re still having trouble at the time of reading this (as I was), you should delete the Youtube folder in your userdata directory. For most people, that’ll be easy to find. If you’re using it on a Fire TV Stick (or similar) like I am? It’s a little bit more tricky.

    First of all, install ES File Explorer from the Fire TV app store and navigate through sdcard -> Android to find what you need. Once you’ve found the youtube folder under userdata, delete it. To install the Youtube fix, you’ll want adbFire and to find a guide on pushing. If you look up ‘sideload kodi plugins adbfire’ on Google you’ll find one. One thing I will add though is when adding a new device, change the radio box list on the right from other to sdcard. I had to do that before I could push the fix over.

    With that, even those on a Fire TV device (stick or otherwise) should be able to get this up and running!

19. Thanks, this issue had been bothering me so much for quite a while. The forum thread is a 250+ pages beast, and the guy that has the git repo gives zero instructions. So yeah, really appreciated.

20. No problem. Glad you got it sorted. Mine has been working fine since I posted this post. If anything changes (and I use it daily) I’ll update this post to save you trawling through the forums.

21. thanks.it’s working as 04/10/16

22. Thanks! I works great. Special thanks to Raspberry Rabbit.

23. Thanks man. Working fine for me now.

24. Fantastic stuff!!! Works like a charm!

25. Hi there. Thank you for this and it works on Kodi on my Android phone. My problem is that how can I put this on KODI apple tv 2. Do you have a file which I can put it manually. I hope you can help me with this. Many thanks

26. thank you! much better than trying to change api key

27. you-tube live still not working ! any fix

28. It works fine but the top quality of video is limited to 720p
    I did work on the configuration to force 1080HD but it doesnt work.
    anyway, thank you for such an amazing add-on

29. I’ve never had Youtube live work on the addon. I think it’s something to do with how live streams are encoded on the fly & don’t have the same formats extra formats available such as those required by this plugin.

30. Hi Luke.

    Glad you got it working. 720p has always been the limit on the YouTube addon for kodi. This is due to the way the plugin is made & the fact that it has to be open source to be allowed in the Kodi repo. The bitrate between 720p and 1080p aren’t much different and the difference on screen isn’t very noticeable due to the compression used.

31. Thank you so much I was wondering how to get this working properly again, I came across your post as the 5th result in my google search 😀

32. worked for me too

33. I need help to fix the add-on I have to find the add-on data folder and I can’t even find that the person who put kodi on My fire stick is using Navi-x and the tv add-on build. If someone could help that would be amazing.

34. Thanks a lot for your time and effort to write this!! Worked like a charm for me!!

35. I am so glad this worked. I needed to turn off auto-updates so it did not update to the broken version.

36. Hi, I have KODI loaded on Windows and I can’t find the YouTube folder. I can navigate to the profile but the add-ons folder only contains a file called RSS Feeds

37. Thank you so much, it fixed my issue about the subscription thing ! 🙂

38. Dear John,

    I managed to install the plugin and connect to youtube, I used is to watch music clip but at start of each new title music derails for 30 seconds then it’s ok. is it a youtube limitation or plugin problem ?

    Note, issue is not related to network, I’ve made test and comparaison.

    Thanks for your support

39. Did you mean there is some sound distortion? On my Raspberry pi 2 I’ve noticed a second or so of distortion at the beginning of some clips. It’s probably a hardware limitation as it buffers enough stream & starts decoding. The first few seconds of video playback are demanding on any system as the file needs to be opened, key frames & details checked & playback initiated.

    I’d be looking at your hardware & general network settings to tweak both. You could also set a large buffer in Kodi to buffer more content. This would have the added bonus of giving the hardware time to catch up with itself before beginning playback.

40. Thanks!

41. Thanks.

42. Thanks man, your solution did it. I did not have to reinstall the plugin, just do the initial setup! Great!

43. Deleted youtube plugin from addon folder as well repositry comprising youtube addon, because youtube old version persistantly appeared even after master zip file installed. Instaled master version again and after sign in I was able to see main youtube screen. Problem now is that For popular right now & Browse channels, Unkown kind” message box appear under “exception in content provider banner”. Clicking on “search” brings Error: script failed. video. plugin. youtube master. clicking “Live” gets to next pages with play back failed error or title gets highlighted but nothing happens. Please pl. help.

44. Thank you! This works, ending weeks of frustration. This is doesn’t work for you don’t forget to authenticate twice… authenticating only once does not work

45. You can just upgrade python to a newer version it works for me.
    HOW TO in link https://tecadmin.net/install-python-3-6-ubuntu-linuxmint/

46. Signature function not found error on kodi 16.1 and windows 10, i know kodi 17.6 is available, but i would like to know if there is a fix for this youtube plugin

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