Setup

1. Copy / download youtube_nowplaying.py to your Hexchat addons directory: %appdata%\HexChat\addons
2. Install PyGetWindow
3. In Hexchat, load the script with /LOAD youtube_nowplaying.py

Usage

1. Play a song from YouTube in Chrome, Brave, Edge or Firefox.
2. Type /ytnp into your desired channel

Output:

Note: the two lines above can be disabled, they are just part of the debugging.

Features

• Uses API to scrape any info you like from a video. Currently setup to show Title, Channel, Views (human format), Likes (human format) and Uploaded timeframe (human format)
• Will display the current active playing song (i.e you can have mulitple YouTube tabs open but the script will only use the active tab as its source)
• Debugging: Will display any errors if the API call failed (i.e in the case of reaching a limit)
• If API reaches its limit / fails, script will fall back to just showing the title pulled from the active tab in the browser