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Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by jraph »

dawidpotocki wrote: post #29
jraph wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, I guess I can get rid of my cron task that marks shorts as read in Nextcloud News. How did you find out?

I was annoyed one day and was looking online around for some solutions. You can find a bit more information here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71192605/how-do-i-get-yo...

Thanks!

From your link:

> However, this pattern was found by me by acquiring all playlists from "UUAA" to "UUZZ" and is not officially announced by YouTube.

Okay, this was reverse engineered and there's no promise from Google on that :-)

I wonder how they use these feeds if that's only internal.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by kebman »

Just make your own RSS feed?

Stuff I like, I often store, or make notes of. I don't personally use RSS for it, but perhaps I should make a kebman's curated YouTube RSS feed? It'll be kinda AI heavy tho...

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by rambambram »

I subscribe to feeds by just copying the human-readable url (right-click on the channel's title). When I embed the videos from these channels only the long videos are embedded, the shorts are not (has to do with a different url for shorts). So no problems here.

I do have a problem with old videos getting presented as new videos. Videos from weeks ago get a publication date of two days ago. Sometimes I just don't know - based on a thumbnail - if I've already seen the video.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by kakwa_ »

zeta0134 wrote: post #3

I've been having some success by configuring my RSS reader with simple rules, like "please don't tell me about shorts" and "I don't care if this person is live right now." Too bad the real homepage shows three enormous thumbnails and pretty much exclusively the things I want to not see.

For the home page, I would recommend the "UnTrap for Youtube" browser extension.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by Dylan16807 »

> Nobody asked for shorts in their feed

> if we add a feed to specifically follow the channel's full-length, higher quality video content, that's what we want to see. Shorts are the opposite of that. They're impulse content, designed for infinite scroll, not for a feed reader

I'm officially asking for it.

On the channels I'm subscribing to, nothing is wrong with the shorts except the UI covering up part of the video. They're not lower quality, and while you could call a lot of them "impulsive", a lot of longer videos are also impulsive!

I feel like I live in an alternate world to most people because shorts seem resoundingly Fine to me. They have some advantages and disadvantages but overall it's on par with the rest of the site. Not some weird addictive slop feed.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by flaviolivolsi »

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

Looks nice, maybe it lacks some categories. For example I was looking for cycling (both as sport and outdoor activity), bikepacking and chess but there doesn't seem to be anything related

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by charcircuit »

ballooney wrote: post #24
charcircuit wrote: post #18

>When visiting a YouTube channel, there's no link to follow it in a feed reader, no "add feed" button, nothing. There is literally a bell which you can set it so all videos get sent to your notification feed. >But when that mission starts bleeding into the feeds of users who don't want it, it becomes a big problem. Most people love shorts. It had extremely fast growth and continues to get a ton of engagement. Not wan…

The chinese colonies love opium, engagement is through the roof.

You can say the engagement is through the roof about any activity that is popular.
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