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It's a shame he didn't recommend cli programs like sfeed or newsboat. I recently also stopped using youtube to be notified about new videos from the channels I

It's a shame he didn't recommend cli programs like sfeed or newsboat. I recently also stopped using youtube to be notified about new videos from the channels I follow, and now I use exclusively RSS with some scripts to made my life easier. Because youtube doesn't provide a RSS with all your subscriptions anymore, I had to extract all of them using the browser console[0] and convert all the links to the (hidden) RSS feed. This issue also happens with LBRY but this time I had to use an external service (I don't blame them because by design, you can't have something like a linear RSS feed in a blockchain). I also used twitter for a while but at one point I felt tired of letting them tell me what I want to read. I was usually distracted by other tweets and feelt like I was wasting my time and didn't find any important or interesting stuff. Because there are still good twitter users in this platform and they don't support RSS feeds anymore, I managed to follow them using nitter[1]. I can tell you that, now, I see those two platforms like they were 10 years ago and I'm enjoying them like never before. [0] https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/85275454?hl=en&msgid=86912868 https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/85275454?hl=en&msg... [1] https://nitter.net/ https://nitter.net/

HDMI_Cable 6y ago
You can still get an RSS feed for individual channels (not subscriptions though) with the following URL: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=[Channel https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=[Channel ID here]
- drdeca 6y ago
  You can even subscribe to a particular playlist! (So, say someone produces many videos, but you only want the ones that they add to a particular playlist, you can do that.)
- EccentricBunny 6y ago
  Yes, I wanted to use sfeed and they show how to get the good url in their config example [0]. With a simple for loop in bash, I added them to the list of my rss feeds. I had 50+ youtube channels and didn't want to make something complicated. [0] https://git.codemadness.org/sfeed/file/sfeedrc.example.html#l13 https://git.codemadness.org/sfeed/file/sfeedrc.example.html#...
opan 6y ago
Nitpick, but newsboat is TUI rather than CLI, a sort of terminal GUI. (same for others ncurses stuff) CLI stuff is more of a REPL.
- asdff 6y ago
  Off topic: would a man page be considered a TUI?
pwrplus1 6y ago
sfeed is the greatest! [1] The reason I couldn't stick with other feed aggregators in the past is because of the perpetual accumulation of the unread count. The output of sfeed_html is just links [2]. No unread counts. I can remember whether I've read something or not. Just stick it on a server, run as a cronjob, and you have your new browser homepage. And if you want to move your "database" it's just a directory of tsv files. Brilliant. [1] https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html [2] https://codemadness.org/downloads/sfeed/html/feeds.html https://codemadness.org/downloads/sfeed/html/feeds.html
- asdff 6y ago
  >perpetual accumulation of the unread count In practice, is that an issue? you could just ignore that number, or mark all as read when you are done reading. It looks like the example you gave in link 2 has some unread counts perpetually accumulating, in fact, unless I misunderstand.
  - pwrplus1 6y ago
    sfeed_html just outputs a flat html file, I know it looks like unread counts, but it's just showing a count of entries with a published date within the last 24 hours of when the page was generated. It's just an easy way to draw attention to "new" entries. An unread count feels to me like another todo list. I like not having it.

HDMI_Cable 6y ago

You can still get an RSS feed for individual channels (not subscriptions though) with the following URL: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=[Channel https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=[Channel ID here]

drdeca 6y ago
You can even subscribe to a particular playlist! (So, say someone produces many videos, but you only want the ones that they add to a particular playlist, you can do that.)
EccentricBunny 6y ago
Yes, I wanted to use sfeed and they show how to get the good url in their config example [0]. With a simple for loop in bash, I added them to the list of my rss feeds. I had 50+ youtube channels and didn't want to make something complicated. [0] https://git.codemadness.org/sfeed/file/sfeedrc.example.html#l13 https://git.codemadness.org/sfeed/file/sfeedrc.example.html#...

opan 6y ago

Nitpick, but newsboat is TUI rather than CLI, a sort of terminal GUI. (same for others ncurses stuff) CLI stuff is more of a REPL.

asdff 6y ago
Off topic: would a man page be considered a TUI?

pwrplus1 6y ago

sfeed is the greatest! [1] The reason I couldn't stick with other feed aggregators in the past is because of the perpetual accumulation of the unread count. The output of sfeed_html is just links [2]. No unread counts. I can remember whether I've read something or not. Just stick it on a server, run as a cronjob, and you have your new browser homepage. And if you want to move your "database" it's just a directory of tsv files. Brilliant. [1] https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html [2] https://codemadness.org/downloads/sfeed/html/feeds.html https://codemadness.org/downloads/sfeed/html/feeds.html

asdff 6y ago
>perpetual accumulation of the unread count In practice, is that an issue? you could just ignore that number, or mark all as read when you are done reading. It looks like the example you gave in link 2 has some unread counts perpetually accumulating, in fact, unless I misunderstand.
- pwrplus1 6y ago
  sfeed_html just outputs a flat html file, I know it looks like unread counts, but it's just showing a count of entries with a published date within the last 24 hours of when the page was generated. It's just an easy way to draw attention to "new" entries. An unread count feels to me like another todo list. I like not having it.