At a company I was working for, we need to offer live stream detection to push notifications and keep a banner in app. One of the methods to detect was through the RSS channel feed, but it wasn't reliable, because some channels are listing their entries and others are not!
YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
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Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
#72When I go to the website it says: "Open RSS
Sorry
We seem to be having some technical difficulties. Hang tight..."
Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
#73My 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
tried to use it but gave up after the 3rd popup modal
just let me use the thing
Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
#74When I go to the website it says: "Open RSS Sorry We seem to be having some technical difficulties. Hang tight..."
Works for me 6 minutes later. But that must have made you giggle a little!
Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
#75> When visiting a YouTube channel, there's no link to follow it in a feed reader, no "add feed" button, nothing.
Youtube does actually provide a to these feeds, but _only_ if you press refresh in your browser after navigating to a channel's videos page. Their single-page-app breaks feeds and hitting refresh works around this by loading the correct page from scratch.
(To address the second point in this text: yes having an actual visible feed link or icon on the page itself should also be normalised)
Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
#76Just 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...
Why would anyone use RSS for their notes?
Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
#77My 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
Interesting idea. How do you get those twitter feeds if I may ask? Are you using nitter?
Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
#78>The feeds we can subscribe to in our own feed reader to follow our favorite creators without having to be on your platform at all?
And why would YouTube go out of their way to allow you to do that?
Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
#79> 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...?
Probably CGNAT, "Carrier-Grade NAT": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT
Huge, huge numbers of machines behind a single external IP mean that your internet access carries all their reputation by proxy. Since switching off Comcast to a smaller fiber company that uses CGNAT I've seen somewhat more Cloudflare challenges.
Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
#80> 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…
Out of curiosity, are you filtering out shorts because of YouTube's terrible Shorts UI, or solely because of shorts' content quality?
For myself, I've curated my recommendation algorithm down to the point that I don't mind the shorts I get recommended, they're generally from content creators I like anyhow, or content creators that use shorts as their primary medium in ways I'm generally OK with, but the UI is trash. For some reason, I can cast normal videos to my Roku, but if I try to cast a short, it cancels casting, quite explicitly with a popup saying "hey this is going to cancel casting, are you sure?". But the Roku YouTube app is perfectly capable of navigating to a short in the UI and playing it.
And no matter how much I curate the algorithm, the thing that it wants to play next in the Shorts UI is effectively random to me. Not once have I ever seen one that is even a decent recommendation. Maybe I'm hitting some weird edge case because I'm having the opposite problem some people report; Shorts aren't horrifically addictive and I can't stop scrolling, I can't start. The recommendations in my feed are OK but the "next short" is uniformly terrible for me.
That's why I try to prune them down a bit.
I keep up the fight because as a recent article noticed, YouTube is still a unique video service with an astonishing amount of high-quality content from small creators, fascinating math videos, how-to videos, etc. I'm more-or-less winning the fight with the algorithm at the moment and it still often turns up interesting things. But it is a constant fight to keep it from becoming a lowest-common-denominator feed. Goodness help you if someone links you a YouTube video of a cat being stupid or anything political, get that watch out of your History before you forget.