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Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by black-adder »

shevy-java wrote: post #33

Google itself is broken. Admittedly though, how many folks use RSS feeds? I never managed to get into it.

I have a MiniFlux instance running on my Raspberry Pi, pulling from my 367 subscribed channels. It beats having to go through the "Subscripitons" page every day on the horrible YouTube UI, instead I can just go through the list in the feed, mark the uninteresting ones as read, keep the good videos in the feed and whenever I have time I can pick from those to watch.

I also have some feeds tagged as "music", for which I have a cronjob that calls yt-dlp to download the songs/mixes, nicely stashing the M4A files on a NAS, so I can keep up with new music, going through new releases at my own pace, keeping the good ones, deleting the shit ones.

If you ever had favorited songs deleted from YouTube, you will understand why this all makes sense.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by [deleted] »

jraph wrote: post #41
dawidpotocki wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by antisol »

Well hi there chatgpt! I wonder if the person who couldn't be bothered writing this article actually had a point they wanted to make? I don't know because I stopped reading as soon as I recognised your fingerprint.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by scbzzzzz »

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, but i am using firefox and website is broken, lost of text overlap. horizontal scroll not working etc

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by akpa1 »

My feed reader works by running once a day, at roughly the same time every day, and sending me an email of all of the things it's not seen before. Because of this I've not actually been able to get any output from the Youtube feeds for months because they always seem to be going down at about the same time of day. I didn't realise it was "only" intermittent.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by notsylver »

qmarchi wrote: post #9

> Access to feeds from this network are restricted due to continued abuse of the service, which brings down the performance of feeds for everyone else. You'll need to use a verification token or use a different network to restore access Ahh, good to know that my regular ISP got banned for something I have no clue about. Can't even read the blog.

I use a medium sized Australian ISP and got the same, maybe they just have whole regions blocked...?

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by i_think_so »

zImPatrick wrote: post #44

this article hasn't been loading for me for about 3 hours, here's an archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260506043414/https://openrss.o...

I think their site got hugged to death. It worked for me at first but not anymore. Now I get:

> Too many requests are being made, which brings down the performance of feeds for other users. Please wait a while before requesting more feed content or log in for full access

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by dspillett »

jraph wrote: post #41
dawidpotocki wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

Perhaps they don't, it could be that the interface was written to a more flexible spec to allow for ongoing changes, and close to release they decided which features would be officially supported. In that case the method being used here is either deliberately kept around for potential future use, or is a bit of their tech debt.

It may also be something that is internally supported still because it is used in legacy apps that are still out there (some smart TVs have ancient apps and no upgrade path) but they don't want it used by new code as it will eventuality be removed.

In any of those cases, there is no guarantee it'll still be there tomorrow.

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