Youtube Support

[Luc45]

Why should this feature be implemented?

It makes it easier to embed music into a website.

Feature Description

I would like to request that Amplitude can play music directly from a Youtube URL:

Amplitude.init({
  "songs": [
    {
      "name": "Risin' High (feat Raashan Ahmad)",
      "artist": "Ancient Astronauts",
      "album": "We Are to Answer",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
      "cover_art_url": "../album-art/we-are-to-answer.jpg"
    },
  ]
});

In it's most basic version, it would stream the audio from Youtube instead of from the MP3 file.

On a more complete version, it could also extract metadata from the Youtube video directly:

Amplitude.init({
  "songs": [
    // MP3, backwards compatible
    {
      "name": "Risin' High (feat Raashan Ahmad)",
      "artist": "Ancient Astronauts",
      "album": "We Are to Answer",
      "url": "foo.mp3",
      "cover_art_url": "../album-art/we-are-to-answer.jpg",
    },
    // Just feed the audio from Youtube instead of MP3
    {
      "name": "Risin' High (feat Raashan Ahmad)",
      "artist": "Ancient Astronauts",
      "album": "We Are to Answer",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
      "cover_art_url": "../album-art/we-are-to-answer.jpg",
      "source": "youtube" // or automatically inferred by parsing the URL string above
      }
    },
    // Just Youtube URL
    {
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
      "source": "youtube", // or automatically inferred by parsing the URL string above
      // Name and Cover art URL ommited, fallback to extracing it from Youtube.
      // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2068344/how-do-i-get-a-youtube-video-thumbnail-from-the-youtube-api
      // Example for the video above: https://img.youtube.com/vi/XfR9iY5y94s/0.jpg
    },
    }
  ]
});

A new configuration item could be added to give granular control over YT behavior:

Amplitude.init({
   "youtube_config": {
    "cover_art_fallback_behavior": "youtube", // extract thumbnail from youtube video
    "cover_art_fallback_behavior": "default" // use value from "default_album_art"
  }
});