YouTube is the biggest video-sharing platform owned by Google. With billions of videos, you can find a lot of entertaining and educational content and spend hours watching those videos.
You can watch YouTube on Kodi with a well-maintained official Kodi add-on. However, it requires you to set up a personal API key, as mentioned below in the tutorial.
Here are the instructions on how to install YouTube:
- Launch Kodi
- Click Add-ons
- Click the add-on browser icon
- Click Install from repository
- Click Kodi Add-on repository
- Click Video add-ons
- Click YouTube
- Click Install
- Wait till you see an add-on installed message
Here is how to set up personal API key:
Watching YouTube on Kodi works perfectly but requires setting up a personal API key.
Here is how to install the latest version of the add-on:
The add-on installed from the Kodi repository may not be the most updated. It won’t happen often, but critical bugs may prevent you from using the add-on. In this case, install the latest version of the add-on.
- Download the latest official Kodi v19+ ZIP file from here
- Launch Kodi
- Click the settings icon
- Click System
- Hover over Add-ons
- Click Unknown source to enable it (if you haven’t done it already)
- Go back to the Kodi home page
- Click Add-ons
- Click the add-on browser icon
- Click Install from zip file
- Locate the ZIP file that you downloaded and click on it
- Wait till you see an add-on installed message
That’s all, now you can watch YouTube on Kodi. Enjoy it!