Trying to pass URL to media_player.play_media not working

@g92847 wrote:

I am hoping someone can help me troubleshoot this as I have tried for days to no avail.

Goal: Scrape page to get most recent podcast URL and pass that to media_player.play_media

I have created a sensor that scrapes the podcast URL:

configuration.yaml

sensor:
  - platform: scrape
    resource: http://feeds.podtrac.com/zKq6WZZLTlbM
    name: podcast_the_daily
    select: 'enclosure:nth-of-type(1)'
    attribute: url
    scan_interval: 900

Adding

{{ states.sensor.podcast_the_daily.state }} 

to template returns the correct URL

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/rss.art19.com/episodes/e163ee32-7ae9-453e-a81e-a8c4e60a4c96.mp3 

But when I create a script to play the media, it won’t work:

morning_podcast:
  alias: Morning Podcast
  sequence:
  - service: media_player.play_media
    entity_id:
     - media_player.livingroom
    data_template:
        media_content_id: >
          {{ states.sensor.podcast_the_daily.state }}
        media_content_type: audio/mp3

I have checked the logs and I am not getting any sort of error either. I have verified that pasting the URL directly into the script works, just not when I try and use the sensor.

Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong here? Any help would be appreciated.

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