Plugin Development

Plugin development for nxu-wvd

Quick step by step guide

1, Create a new .NET Class Library (dll) project

2, Add a reference to the VideoInfoManager.dll file. The classes are namespaced as NXU.WebVideoDownloader.VideoInfoManager

3, Create the plugin class. It must inherit the [WebVideoStream class]:

:::csharp
using NXU.WebVideoDownloader.VideoInfoManager;

public class YouTubeStream : WebVideoStream
{
    // ...
}

4, Implement the constructor and the abstract methods of the base class as following

:::csharp
public YouTubeStream(string streamUri)
    : base(streamUri)
{
}

public override VideoInformation GetVideoInformation()
{
    // ...
    // The return value is a VideoInformation object. See below. 
}

To read more about the VideoInformation class, visit [VideoInformation class].

5, Add the necessary and optional attributes to your class

:::csharp
[StreamUriPattern(@"http[s]?://(www\.)youtube.com/.*")]
[PluginAuthorInfo(AuthorName = "John Smith", AuthorUrl = "http://www.my-page.com")]
[PluginDetails(PluginName = "YouTube Downloader", PluginVersion = "0.5", 
    PluginDescription = "Downloader plugin for YouTube videos")]
public class YouTubeStream : WebVideoStream 
{
    // ...
}

6, Compile. You are done.