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AFAIK they still do, just without any way to find it except by digging into the channel page’s HTML to find the channel_id and then constructing the feed URL fr
by boogies 6y ago
AFAIK they still do, just without any way to find it except by digging into the channel page’s HTML to find the channel_id and then constructing the feed URL from that (“https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=$channel_id” https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=$channel...) — or (edit) using something like https://github.com/rss-bridge/rss-bridge https://github.com/rss-bridge/rss-bridge that presumably does something like that under the hood — so I guess scraping for an undocumented API.
- throw0101a 6y agoYou are talking about Youtube: I am talking about Twitter.
- boogies 6y agoOops, my bad. https://nitter.net/ https://nitter.net/ is a nice alternative Twitter frontend with RSS feeds btw.
- JetSpiegel 6y agohttps://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nitter-git/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nitter-git/ It's even on AUR, for easy usage.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y agoI have used that /feeds/videos.xml URL for retrieving a list of all videos in a playlist (playlist_id), but I have not used it for channels. What is the maximum number of results that one can retrieve. Without any additional parameters, it looks like it only returns 15 videos by default. Personally, for channels, I use a script only needs to access the channel's page; it outputs a list of all the videos in the channel. One of the more recent web development trends I dislike are sites that "load more results" using additional Javascript-triggered HTTP requests in response to scrolling a page. YouTube channels with multiple pages of videos are one example. With custom scripts I wrote for searching YouTube, outputting lists of videos from channels, and downloading non-commercial videos, I can use YouTube without the need a graphical browser.