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Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by renegat0x0 »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #40
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".

no, the paragraph argues that something needs to be glued together, which is not true, so it is not entirely about 'visibility'.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by zeta0134 »

eowln wrote: post #25
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.

How do you filter out live streams? They look exactly the same to me in the rss feed.

I got lucky: the only creator doing that used a consistent name for the video, so I could pattern match on that. I haven't found anything that would work universally.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by protoster »

TonyTrapp wrote: post #50

Hush, don't remind them that they have RSS feeds, or they might remove them altogether.

For real. There has to be an RSS fan high up in the company, because RSS allows users to bypass the very thing YT are pushing so hard for i.e. recommendations and shorts.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by account42 »

dspillett wrote: post #60
jraph wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Then again, supported APIs from Google have exactly the same guarantees.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by account42 »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #40
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".

It used to be visible in the URL bar until browsers killed that feature.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by kgwxd »

I'm actually quite baffled they even still have RSS. I use it, but I expect it to quietly die at some point.

I wonder if they keep it around because, without it, someone would be make and even less efficient means of getting at the information. What I'd really prefer is an email when a followed channel post a full video (Shorts can go to hell). And that email should forever and always be only that, never for anything else. Wouldn't even mind if it was just a "Premium" feature.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by account42 »

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…

Atom fanatics are the vegans of feed enjoyers. For most people RSS refers to both the concept the and particular encoding used and does not imply that both are referenced.

Btw, XHTML also lost to HTML for the same reason - what matters is that stuff works, not that pedants are happy.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by Cieric »

dawidpotocki wrote: post #14

I see people are doing scripts or other things to remove shorts from their feeds, but there is a simpler solution. Take your RSS URL of a channel, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCxSGC9B... Replace the `channel_id` with `playlist_id` and replace `UC` with `UULF`. This prefix will only list normal videos: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UULFxSG...

I actually do this whenever I add a youtube channel, but some shorts still sneak through. Just as a warning to whoever tries it themselves.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Post by alex1138 »

> In case you haven't caught on yet, some of us will just never be interested in being manipulated by those brain-rotting, never-ending homepage feeds you love shoving in our faces the moment we log in.

Quite. I always feel if platforms were used based on merit, if monopolies didn't exist (and Google does prop Youtube up with its own funds) then companies would HAVE to listen to people. Degrees of incompetence would be punished by firing. But we don't live in that world

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