While I was still using my Raspberry Pi as a "media center", I wrote a small server using tornado that did this via a URL: https://github.com/filmor/rpi-media/t

While I was still using my Raspberry Pi as a "media center", I wrote a small server using tornado that did this via a URL: https://github.com/filmor/rpi-media/tree/master/ytdld https://github.com/filmor/rpi-media/tree/master/ytdld I had a small javascript commandlet in my bookmarks that allowed me to start playback directly from a youtube (or any other youtube-dl supported) page.