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Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by zimpenfish »

zarmin wrote: post #22

while we're complaining about this platform that desperately needs (but will never find) competition, it's fucked up that we can't access Watch History and Watch Later playlists via the api.

You used to be able to via `https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL` but it appears the last time I successfully did that was March 2025.

Now I just use the like button which triggers an IFTTT applet to send a webhook to my server which downloads the video. (Sadly IFTTT has no "when you add to a playlist" trigger.)

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by chrismorgan »

spondyl wrote: post #2

Unfortunately, navigating to this page seems to display: > Too many requests are being made from an unsupported application. This unfortunately degrades the experience and makes feeds slow for everyone else. Please try back later.

My first page load just now responded “Sorry / We seem to be having some technical difficulties. Hang tight...” (unknown status code). Second eventually returned 502 Gateway Timeout. Third gave 429 with the message you describe. Fourth eventually gave the actual page.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by Esn024 »

krembo wrote: post #23

My pet project is showing Youtube feeds nicely, along with other rss feeds, twitter feeds and searches and telegram channels. I've been working on it for the past year, still in beta, but I'd love to get feedbacks: https://aggly.com

Quite interesting, seems like something I would find useful. However, is there documentation or even an "About" page anywhere? Some info on which sites are supported and how to add them, as well as user limits? At least on mobile (which seems surprisingly nice, from what I can see), I don't see it.

I do like the overall design and the customizability.

EDIT: I found some info in the miniscule "Terms of Use" link at the bottom of the page when I clicked on the link to create a new account: https://aggly.com/terms

And then I guessed at the url for pricing information by typing in aggly.com/pricing, which redirected me to: https://aggly.com/account (I don't know how to get there from the home page, though)

I haven't found info on what "API access" is good for, though. Is there a description?

Also, would there be any way to integrate paid SubStack subscriptions? (I admittedly haven't looked into this much)

EDIT 2: also, is there an option for a more compact view of a feed, with just the titles and no images? Also, is there a way to filter a feed (or a whole bunch of feeds) by date range? Otherwise, I can see it becoming pretty hard to find something older, eventually, having to click "load more" over and over again...

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

#37

Post by arjie »

ajdude wrote: post #4

> Nobody asked for shorts in their feed This has been a big issue for me. I currently use RSS exclusively to view the YouTube channels that I'm subscribed to -- currently about 75 channels (and 27 nebula channels) -- and over half of my YouTube feeds are filled with several shorts (sometimes multiple ones by the same creator per day). Looking for hashtags in the title and marking those videos as read is essentially m…

I went to see a video I'd uploaded to Youtube a while ago and it's now a short. I have no idea how it became a youtube short. Either I grandpa'd it or they upgrade all vertical form video to shorts.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qc5PKbJ3tq4

Entirely possible it's the former.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by chrismorgan »

I have a bone to pick with the edited title this was submitted under.

The article’s title is “YouTube, your feeds are broken”. The word “RSS” was added to the submission title. That’s factually incorrect: YouTube feeds are Atom, and have been since at least 2009. Even if they have from early days even to this day had a terrible habit of incorrectly labelling the tags with type="application/rss+xml" and title="RSS" or similar.

(I hate RSS. Awful thing, should have died more than twenty years ago. For all domains outside outside the benighted world of podcasting where Apple ruined things, Atom is the strictly better choice, and has been for full twenty years.)

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by NicuCalcea »

chrismorgan wrote: post #38

I have a bone to pick with the edited title this was submitted under. The article’s title is “YouTube, your feeds are broken”. The word “RSS” was added to the submission title. That’s factually incorrect: YouTube feeds are Atom, and have been since at least 2009. Even if they have from early days even to this day had a terrible habit of incorrectly labelling the tags with type="application/rss+xml" and title="RSS" or…

I think that battle is lost. RSS is already terminology the internet is slowly forgetting, being pedantic and insisting some RSS feeds should actually be called Atom feeds will only accelerate that.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

renegat0x0 wrote: post #21

I already complained about post on reddit. It says that link to RSS is hidden, which is not true IMHO. YouTube page contains HTML link to RSS feed in channel page, and most RSS clients should just pick it up just fine. By the way I maintain a list of feeds, many of them are youtube in link below, so if you would like to find a channel you can use it Links: h ttps://github.com/rumca-js/awesome-database-feeds

Hidden is a pretty reasonable synonym for "not visible".
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