Not an issue but there's no stupid question section so this is the way to communicate...

How do I install/add this skill?

@dmhacker how would you WANT THIS SKILL to work / be architected, if you could do anything? For me, YouTube has good search, huge availability to content, but the video to audio transforming step is weirdly stupid and wasteful. I wonder if using a 3rd party MP3 censersion service would make the setup and deploy easier?

It is enabled for testing:
In developer.amazon.com - Alexa tab - Test Section - Enabled

See below a screenshot out of the Youtube Tutorial. It shows the content of the folder from Github.

It takes almost 2-3mins to search for a video in youtube and play.

Hello,
the skill works well for me in the test area. I can see it under developer in the app. But i can´t see it in the app under "video" settings. Alexa: "Can´t find any video skills."
Thank you for help.
Sledge

Hi. I have done the installation described in the https://imgur.com/a/H5R7L.
Its not working, ALEXA said: "there is an issue by the requested skill"

I guess the issue comes from the latest Zip File as there is no folder "node_modules" and the filesize is only 11kb.

THX in advance

I just got my echo show before I found out that google pulled youtube service from echo. Thanks.

Can you please show me were i can Link the Account that i can use the Skill on my Alexa? I did all steps but i can´t test it on alexa because i think it´s didn´t linked but idk how to link it.

Hey,

Alexa recognises all the words but not all the words arrive at the skill.
The words have either disappeared at the front, back or on both sides.

I got the kodi skill working with using the Heroku setup option from https://github.com/m0ngr31/kodi-alexa
because I couldnt get the AWS version setup (no Credit Card)

Hi, I followed this great topic, thanks.
But it is not working for me. Maybe I missed something, or is it linked to the language of my french echo.
How can I make a french interaction model ?
Where are listed the vocal commands we can use ?
Is there a lsit of checks I can validate ?
Thanks again.
MisterSeb

Hi,

I have put this skill on my echo show and general i can say that it works but i have following issue:

After i hear one or two videos, i am asking alexa to close the screen and when i later ask alexa ask youtube „find....“ then nothing happens. When i take power off from the echo show and start it again, the. It works immediately again...want

I have successfully set it up and its finding and playing the songs requested.
"Alexa, Ask Youtube to play artist title"

However during playback if i say any of these:
Alexa, stop
Alexa, ask Youtube to stop
Alexa, ask Youtube to pause

She always responds with:
"You are not playing anything currently"

Also on a side note... If i want o switch to my own Heroku its only the URL i have to change in the AWS Lambda index.js?
// Set Heroku URL
var heroku = process.env.HEROKU_APP_URL || "https://**********.herokuapp.com";

Nothing else requires changing?

New error - no change to code - any search returns with this.

Ideas?

Anyone having issues with videos that are long? Seems like maybe some caching issue. For example, try searching for "Prince". The first result that is returned is a 7minute video. It won't play unless you hit the horokuapp directly and search for Prince, let the video play through to get it cached in horoku. Then you can search for it and it will play. But try something like "Guardians of the Galaxy Soundtrack". The first result is 1hours and 30minutes. That wont play at all.

I just took the recent code from master.
When testing lamda function, I am getting this error:

Unhandled rejection Error: Invalid application
 at Object.ensureErrorObject (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/util.js:261:20)
    at Promise._rejectCallback (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:472:22)
    at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:516:17)
    at Promise._settlePromiseAt (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:584:18)
    at Promise._settlePromiseAtPostResolution (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:248:10)
    at Async._drainQueue (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:128:12)
    at Async._drainQueues (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:133:10)
    at Immediate.Async.drainQueues (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:15:14)
    at runCallback (timers.js:672:20)
    at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:645:5)
    at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:617:5)

When asking alexa to open the skill there is an error "The target Lambda application returned a failure response".

When checking Lambda there is "This function contains external libraries. Uploading a new file will override these libraries."

Do I have to buy a better/larger version of amazon aws?

Thank you!

Hi -- I am trying to create this skill as outlined, however, the steps listed on the Wiki and Amazon's interface are completely different.

For instance, I never found "Global Fields section, mark that the skill uses audio player directives" where I named Invocation (also, invocation needs to be two words, not one? "you tube" not "youtube"? I did find, under Interfaces, a tab to turn on Audio Player -- is that correct?

In the Interaction Model page, I found build-in Intents and create a Custom Intent, but no "Schema Intent". And when I tried to Create an Intent and name it Schema, pasting in the script
{
"intents": [
{
"slots": [
{
"name": "VideoQuery",
"type": "VIDEOS" ...etc...

I got a dialogue box requesting I "Select an Existing Slot" and that there were "no existing slots" and the box changed name to "Sample Utterances" so I deleted the first script and pasted in Sample Utterances from the Wiki, but that wasn't supported, either...

Is there an easier to follow set of instructions is this skill just not meant for noobs like myself. I was really hoping this would work as my teenage son loves listening to youTube while he falls asleep.

Hello,

i want to install this skill today on a aws lambda.
This lambda is in EU ireland and use NodeJs 4.3

I want to start a small lambda test. I get follwing error:

2017-11-22T22:01:03.122Z	a1af59bf-cfd0-11e7-91cc-739af6785e91	Unhandled rejection Error: Invalid application
    at Object.ensureErrorObject (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/util.js:261:20)
    at Promise._rejectCallback (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:472:22)
    at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:516:17)
    at Promise._settlePromiseAt (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:584:18)
    at Promise._settlePromiseAtPostResolution (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:248:10)
    at Async._drainQueue (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:128:12)
    at Async._drainQueues (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:133:10)
    at Immediate.Async.drainQueues [as _onImmediate] (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:15:14)
    at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:383:17)

I hope you can help me 👍

I did all the steps and although on the test page on my developer account the response is correct, on my alexa device I get this message "I Could not find any linked video skills"... What is going wrong?

Your Readme states : "The instructions have been moved to this repository's wiki page." which takes you to https://github.com/dmhacker/alexa-youtube-skill/wiki which then states: "For instructions on how to setup the skill, please visit the Setup Process page. " which takes you to https://github.com/dmhacker/alexa-youtube-skill/wiki/Setup-Process-%28Current%29 which says: "For now, the setup process is detailed here. The guide will be moved back to the wiki shortly." and this link https://imgur.com/a/H5R7L points to a single screenshot that is totally worthless. This is dated April 5th so I can't be the first person to encounter this mess.

I have followed every step carefully. But while testing my skill in Alexa console I get this error message.

The lamda function was able to found the video when requested, but then crash into this issue: Any suggestions? Thank you!

2017-08-10T10:09:16.713Z	f6cdcd50-7db3-11e7-8359-5f9198326baa	SyntaxError: Unexpected token C in JSON at position 0
at Object.parse (native)
at Request._callback (/var/task/index.js:96:47)
at Request.self.callback (/var/task/node_modules/request/request.js:188:22)
at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
at Request.emit (events.js:191:7)
at Request.<anonymous> (/var/task/node_modules/request/request.js:1171:10)
at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
at Request.emit (events.js:188:7)
at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/var/task/node_modules/request/request.js:1091:12)
at IncomingMessage.g (events.js:292:16)
at emitNone (events.js:91:20)
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:185:7)
at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:974:12)
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:80:11)
at process._tickDomainCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:128:9)

If I say "Ask YouTube to Pause" it works. If I ask Alexa to stop, that is the only way I can pause the music, but I can't resume it if I do so. Also, is there any way to skip songs? Or to play a different song than the one playing? Does this Skill work in the way that if you ask Alexa to play a song in the middle of playing another song, she is supposed to play it instantly, or is there a queue system?

Hi, I noticed that if you ask Alexa to play a song that has the word 'ready' in it, it won't recognize the word and omit it from search. Here is an example below with what it searched and what I actually said to Alexa. (PS. This seems to affect more than just 'ready'. See images below.)

Is it possible for you to update this skill so the Echo Show will also play the video with it?

The Code at http://viahold.com/31Kq.
or http://viahold.com/31Kq
will not download and is invalid on firefox/IE/Chrome - no proxy settings or firewall
I can nslookup viahold.com
Did you move the ZIP file?
Is it on a public ftp site

Configuration page: under Endpoint, select AWS ...
What should I put in the blank after Default: ?
Error: Please select a default endpoint.

when i test from skill:
echo, search YouTube for Frost Hyperventilate.
or
search YouTube for Frost Hyperventilate.
Frost Hyperventilate.
i get the same lamda response:
{
"version": "1.0",
"response": {
"speechletResponse": {
"directives": [],
"shouldEndSession": true
}
},
"sessionAttributes": {}
}
When i ask my echo directly:
echo, search YouTube for Frost Hyperventilate.
It just turns off the blue light
When I ask echo directly:
echo, ask YouTube to search for Frost Hyperventilate.'I get response im sorry i dont know what went wrong

There appears to be a way to get audio only based on this https://market.mashape.com/ehmo/savedeo.
Would be nice to take advantage of that as it would reduce the amount of bandwidth.

Since few days, I have been getting the message on alexa as "there is a problem with the requested skills response". When I tried your web URL for your heroku server, and I search under "Youtube Search" , I see this error: "Could not extract signature deciphering actions". Any idea whats going on?

Hi,

can i play automatically the next videos (tracks) from a youtube cannel ?

Set up everything as the instructions said so and everything seems to go through and the process returns the sound file but the echo does not play it it simply turns off.

START RequestId: ce61e347-8532-11e7-98d6-013b034f9a64 Version: $LATEST
Unable to import module 'index': Error
at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
at require (internal/module.js:20:19)

When I try to use the skill after following ur instructions i get the above error .

I am waiting to alexa play music over 1 min, 2,3 min sometimes, is it normal for this skill, or you don't wait so long for loading ?

Some sugetistion what i can do for faster loading of song, i try with default dmhacker and with my own but its same problem.

as title

When I try to run this, I get an error when trying to play back the media file. This is sent as a 'AudioPlayer.PlaybackFailed' request, which doesn't have the applicationid in the sessiondetails, and that causes the following error:

Unhandled exception: Cannot read property 'applicationId' of undefined.

I think the 'pre' function needs to handle that case as well, and the app should probably log errors if it receives them.

Have built and rebuilt this skill with no luck.

2017-08-20T19:05:37.402Z 8d0ddc6b-85da-11e7-856b-930b9b388846 Unhandled rejection Error: Invalid application
at Object.ensureErrorObject (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/util.js:261:20)
at Promise._rejectCallback (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:472:22)
at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:516:17)
at Promise._settlePromiseAt (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:584:18)
at Promise._settlePromiseAtPostResolution (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:248:10)
at Async._drainQueue (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:128:12)
at Async._drainQueues (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:133:10)
at Immediate.Async.drainQueues (/var/task/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:15:14)
at runCallback (timers.js:672:20)
at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:645:5)
at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:617:5)

When creating the skill, I get error that I already have lambda_basic_execution. I changed name to lambda_basic_execution2, but naturally the skill doesn't work. It takes my query but I get no response back.

Any suggestions? I'm assuming I created the first lambda_basic_execution when I created the google assistant skill.

Thanks it works for me. However, the minor issue I face is that I have to repeat 2 times wherever I ask youtube for a new song. I believe this is due to the conversion of the clip to audio. Subsequent play of the song works flawlessly. Thanks.

Hello, I did everything as in the Setup and in my History, Alexa seems to answer me, but she doesn't say anything and no Video is playing.

On average it takes about a minute for the audio to play, which makes the skill barely usable.
I followed this Tutorial, in which it takes a few seconds for the echo to play the audio. My bandwidth is about 10 mbit/s over wifi.

when testing I got the message:
The remote endpoint could not be called, or the response it returned was invalid.

By testing in Lambda AWS I got the execution results:

Response:
{
"errorMessage": "RequestId: dfea431a-0ea3-11e8-9b39-57237427abcd Process exited before completing request"
}

Request ID:
"dfea431a-0ea3-11e8-9b39-57237427abcd"

Function Logs:
START RequestId: dfea431a-0ea3-11e8-9b39-57237427abcd Version: $LATEST
2018-02-10T20:49:23.567Z dfea431a-0ea3-11e8-9b39-57237427abcd Searching ... cro
2018-02-10T20:49:24.384Z dfea431a-0ea3-11e8-9b39-57237427abcd SyntaxError: Unexpected token <
at Object.parse (native)
at Request._callback (/var/task/index.js:103:29)
at Request.self.callback (/var/task/node_modules/request/request.js:188:22)
at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
at Request.emit (events.js:172:7)
at Request. (/var/task/node_modules/request/request.js:1171:10)
at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
at Request.emit (events.js:169:7)
at IncomingMessage. (/var/task/node_modules/request/request.js:1091:12)
at IncomingMessage.g (events.js:260:16)
at emitNone (events.js:72:20)
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:166:7)
at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:905:12)
at nextTickCallbackWith2Args (node.js:437:9)
at process._tickDomainCallback (node.js:392:17)
END RequestId: dfea431a-0ea3-11e8-9b39-57237427abcd
REPORT RequestId: dfea431a-0ea3-11e8-9b39-57237427abcd Duration: 1002.18 ms Billed Duration: 1100 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 45 MB
RequestId: dfea431a-0ea3-11e8-9b39-57237427abcd Process exited before completing request

I set up everything as noted. Seemed pretty straight forward. However I get this response from alexa when trying the skill "There was a problem with the requested skills response." Please Help.

Asking youtube for help is the only response emitted other than a constant blue light

Using the utterance : "Alexa ask youtube play ...."
Error in testing:
Unsupported Directive
AudioPlayer is currently an unsupported namespace. Check the device log for more information.

Hey, Please help me with this error.
I receive this error when i try to play youtube music. I followed exactly your steps and all was setup succesfully.
Now when i am trying to play a melody it says: I couldn't find any linked video skills that can find that.
Can you help me please? Thanks. Also what is the command to play a melody?

Hello dmhacker,
first, thanks a lot for this great skill - unfortunately it did not will work.
I set all as you described here: https://imgur.com/a/H5R7L
but everytime i asked: "alexa frage youtube" i got the response
"bei der Antwort des Skills ist ein Problem aufgetreten"
in english: there was a problem with the requestet skill.

in developer.amazon.com everythins should be right, because at the Test Page i got an response to my Alexa.
I think the problem is in lambda, because when i tried to upload the .zip file i´ve got a message:
index.js not found.
I tried the zip- file from here:
https://github.com/dmhacker/alexa-youtube-skill/releases/latest

alexa.amazon.de response:

Skill response was marked as failure
YouTube Playback
Request Identifier: amzn1.echo-api.request.43cc7108-aa2c-448b-92c8-01bbc028c5e5
The target Lambda application returned a failure response
Sprachfeedback
Alexa hat Folgendes gehört: „alexa frage youtube“

So where can i search for my fault?
Thanks a lot.