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Im a podcast/youtube addict, yet I havent found a good use of youtube's RSS feed. I'd love for channels and playlists to be as simple as podcast feeds, but YT d

Im a podcast/youtube addict, yet I havent found a good use of youtube's RSS feed. I'd love for channels and playlists to be as simple as podcast feeds, but YT doesn't want to be a file server. 1) They block you from watching outside of youtube, so you still need the site to watch 1a) Or do a unix'y combination with youtube-dl; file management; etc 1b) Or use a service or tool that comes, gets broken, goes; (podsync, youcast) 2) Adding rss feeds one by one is tedious. Podcast Addict for android helps, but can't mark as read, and other limitations. So I still need the site to manage subscriptions 2a) There's no way to get a "my user" RSS that has all my subscriptions, even if I wanted that 3) etc etc etc.

SamWhited 6y ago
I still find YouTube's feeds useful (though not ideal) because I can get updates for a handful of channels that I want to watch instantly. If I just go to their site I have to go to every channel to see if their are new updates, or hope it shows up on the main page (which it may or may not do, half the time it just shows me old videos hoping I'll rewatch it or randomly suggests new channels I don't care about because I watched a single video on that topic so obviously I must only want to see that topic for like a week). Just knowing "your author published a new video" instantly without having to do the YouTube song and dance is pretty nice.
Arnavion 6y ago
>1) They block you from watching outside of youtube, so you still need the site to watch My workflow is to have a feed reader and a terminal next to it running an endless loop of "read line -> run youtube-dl with the line". I copy-paste the URLs from my reader to the terminal. >2) Adding rss feeds one by one is tedious. Podcast Addict for android helps, but can't mark as read, and other limitations. So I still need the site to manage subscriptions I don't subscribe on Youtube so there's no subscription state or watched-video state that I need to keep in sync with the website. Both those states are in my feed reader.
RMPR 6y ago
> 1) They block you from watching outside of youtube, so you still need the site to watch > 1a) Or do a unix'y combination with youtube-dl; file management; etc > 1b) Or use a service or tool that comes, gets broken, goes; (podsync, youcast) 1c) Use mpv to stream the videos[0], you can even have picture-in-picture[1] 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26017660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26017660 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26022835 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26022835
tomjen3 6y ago
VLC can play youtube videos if you copy and paste the link. It is a downloadable program and it has been around for 20 years, so chances are it isn't going anywhere.

SamWhited 6y ago

I still find YouTube's feeds useful (though not ideal) because I can get updates for a handful of channels that I want to watch instantly. If I just go to their site I have to go to every channel to see if their are new updates, or hope it shows up on the main page (which it may or may not do, half the time it just shows me old videos hoping I'll rewatch it or randomly suggests new channels I don't care about because I watched a single video on that topic so obviously I must only want to see that topic for like a week). Just knowing "your author published a new video" instantly without having to do the YouTube song and dance is pretty nice.

Arnavion 6y ago

>1) They block you from watching outside of youtube, so you still need the site to watch My workflow is to have a feed reader and a terminal next to it running an endless loop of "read line -> run youtube-dl with the line". I copy-paste the URLs from my reader to the terminal. >2) Adding rss feeds one by one is tedious. Podcast Addict for android helps, but can't mark as read, and other limitations. So I still need the site to manage subscriptions I don't subscribe on Youtube so there's no subscription state or watched-video state that I need to keep in sync with the website. Both those states are in my feed reader.

RMPR 6y ago

> 1) They block you from watching outside of youtube, so you still need the site to watch > 1a) Or do a unix'y combination with youtube-dl; file management; etc > 1b) Or use a service or tool that comes, gets broken, goes; (podsync, youcast) 1c) Use mpv to stream the videos[0], you can even have picture-in-picture[1] 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26017660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26017660 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26022835 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26022835

tomjen3 6y ago

VLC can play youtube videos if you copy and paste the link. It is a downloadable program and it has been around for 20 years, so chances are it isn't going anywhere.