bitchute.lua for VLC

--[[
    bitchute.lua - VLC bitchute.com video stream plugin
    Version 1.0.0
    This playlist extension allows VLC to play bitchute.com videos

    It translates a bitchute.com webpage url to a VLC playlist entry
    containing relevant metadata and the direct mp4 video url extracted from the webpage.

    copy this LUA script to your VLC lua playlist scripts folder.
    Path is usually ...\VLC\lua\playlist\bitchute.lua
--]]

-- Probe function.
function probe()
    return (vlc.access == "http" or vlc.access == "https")
    and (string.match(vlc.path, "^www.bitchute%.com/video"))
end

-- Parse function.
function parse()
    vlc.msg.info("Using BitChute Parse plugin")
    local path, url, name, description, arturl, artist, canonicalURL

    while true do
        line = vlc.readline()
        if not line then break end

        -- source webpage url
        if string.match( line, "<link id=\"canonical\"%s.+href=\"(.+)\"" ) then
            _,_,canonicalURL = string.find( line, "<link id=\"canonical\"%s.+href=\"(.+)\"" )

        -- Title of the entry
        elseif string.match( line, "<meta property=\"og:title\"" ) then
            _,_,name = string.find( line, "<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"(.-)\"" )
            name = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars( name )

        -- still image for artwork
        elseif string.match( line, "<meta name=\"twitter:image:src\"" ) then
            arturl = string.match( line, "<meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"(.-)\"" )

        -- Artist for the entry
        elseif string.match( line, "<p class=\"owner\"><a href=\"" ) then
            artist = string.match( line, "<p class=\"owner\"><a href=\".-\">(.-)</a>" )

        -- mp4 video url to play
        elseif string.match( line, "<source src=\"(.+)%.mp4\"" ) then
            _,_,url = string.find( line, "<source src=\"(.+%.mp4)\"" )

        -- Comments get description.
        elseif string.match( line, "<meta name=\"description\"" ) then
            _,_,description = string.find( line, "<meta name=\"description\"%s-content=\"(.+)" )
            if (description ~= nil) then
                description = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars( description )
            end

        end
    end
    description = description.."\n"..canonicalURL  -- add origin webpage url as new line in Comments
    path = url
    return { { path = path, name = name, description = description, arturl = arturl, artist = artist } }
end

--[[
  The playlist is a table of playlist items.
  A playlist item has the following members:
      .path: the item's full path / URL
      .name: the item's name in playlist (OPTIONAL)
      .title: the item's Title (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .artist: the item's Artist (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .genre: the item's Genre (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .copyright: the item's Copyright (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .album: the item's Album (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .tracknum: the item's Tracknum (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .description: the item's Description (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .rating: the item's Rating (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .date: the item's Date (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .setting: the item's Setting (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .url: the item's URL (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .language: the item's Language (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .nowplaying: the item's NowPlaying (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .publisher: the item's Publisher (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .encodedby: the item's EncodedBy (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .arturl: the item's ArtURL (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .trackid: the item's TrackID (OPTIONAL, meta data)
      .options: a list of VLC options (OPTIONAL)
                example: .options = { "run-time=60" }
      .duration: stream duration in seconds (OPTIONAL)
      .meta: custom meta data (OPTIONAL, meta data)
             A .meta field is a table of custom meta key value pairs.
             example: .meta = { ["GVP docid"] = "-5784010886294950089", ["GVP version] = "1.1", Hello = "World!" }
--]]