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Hmm, interesting. Is it based on Youtube's raw RSS features? Because you can use RSS for an entire channel, or for a playlist, but the latter doesn't work if
by waterhouse 6y ago
Hmm, interesting. Is it based on Youtube's raw RSS features? Because you can use RSS for an entire channel, or for a playlist, but the latter doesn't work if there are more than 15 (IIRC) videos in the playlist. Does Newsblur do something specific to Youtube to work around that?
Also, does any RSS reader have some kind of regex filtering option? "I want all the items from this RSS feed that match the following regex".
While I'm at it, how about getting the output of an arbitrary program? (Use case: websites that have a page with what I want—e.g. every article published by a certain author—but have no built-in RSS functionality. Ideally I would specify the program as "curl [URL] | egrep -o [stuff]", and it would generate new RSS entries anytime that output changed.) I know I can kludge together a cron job that runs such a program and generates a file, and point my RSS reader at the URL "file://path/to/output.xml", but is there anything with built-in functionality like that?
- alex_duf 6y agoI think youtube had killed every RSS endpoint, I remember channels disappearing from my RSS app. So either youtube has done the right thing or that specific reader is scrapping the HTML of the channel pages.
- waterhouse 6y agoYou can get a Youtube channel's Atom feed as something like this: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC0Xe2bvq_2uucE2IRALSR_Q https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC0Xe2bv... From the channel's URL like this: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Xe2bvq_2uucE2IRALSR_Q https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Xe2bvq_2uucE2IRALSR_Q
- tomjen3 6y agoI am subscribing to youtube channels through thunderbird. It works well for right now and it makes it easy to either open the url or copy it to youtube-dl or mpv for out of browser watching, but getting the rss url for a named channel is so janky now, and it feels like it works only because nobody has turned it of, like it is one design tweak from being disabled entirely. Ah well, I will continue subscribing in Thunderbird until whomever keeps RSS alive at youtube (thank you, if you are reading this) moves on to better things. Then I will watch it sunset just as I did with google music, G+, Google reader and all the rest Google has killed over the years.
- ecliptik 6y agoI'm not entirely sure how the Newsblur youtube feeds work, but here's an older blog post on switching to API v2, https://blog.newsblur.com/post/117767869761/a-real-solution-to-the-deprecated-youtube-api https://blog.newsblur.com/post/117767869761/a-real-solution-... I have about 20 youtube channels in Newsblur and watch them almost always within Newsblur itself, so it works well enough. For regex filtering, Newsblur has training features. You can curate a feed based off specific attributes, like author, topic, keywords, etc.
- waterhouse 6y agoNice, so they do have something custom-built for Youtube. And I don't know if that extends to following a particular playlist, but at least for my purposes, matching a string in the titles of a channel's videos would be equally useful. So that should work.
- cromka 6y agoTiny Tiny RSS has regex filtering. Use it extensively and works as expected.
- waterhouse 6y agoNice. Incidentally, I found https://siftrss.com/ https://siftrss.com/ , which lets one do string-based filtering at the level of creating a new feed based on the old one, which means you can plug it into your existing reader.