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Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

#91

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

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

Twitter had RSS feeds many moons ago:

* https://www.seroundtable.com/twitter-rss-depreciated-16973.h...

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

#92
OpenRSS, your website is broken. I get:

> Too many requests are being made from this network, which brings down the performance of feeds for other users. Please try back later.

With regards to the topic, I've noticed this when using FreeTube during certain periods of the day.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

#95
How about YouTube RSS feed, where description contains summary from video in text format? Imagine how much time could be saved because TL;DW. Of course, Google would never do such a thing.

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

#96

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...

(a little bit of self-promo but) If anyone is looking for an RSS reader that splits out shorts from videos automatically, I made my open source reader Serial in part for exactly this

https://serial.tube/

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

#97
As someone who's been working on an RSS reader primarily for YouTube off and on for the last year or two (https://serial.tube), the feed vanishing has been the bane of my existence – so many moments of wondering "oh god what did I break now" only to realize it's YouTube yet again

Re: YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

#98
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> 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?

As someone who's been working on an RSS reader for primarily YouTube content (https://serial.tube), it's 99% content quality and content duplication. I did hear of one specific person who does actually watch them, but that was specifically for artists who only post their progress updates over shorts.

The solution I came up with was being able to sort/filter on all content/just videos/just shorts on a per view (folder) basis, so you can opt into them but they are omitted by default. Curious what other people's approaches are

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