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> invidious: Alternative YouTube frontend that provides RSS feeds Youtube natively offers per-channel rss feeds.

throwaway14356 3y ago
the pupdates are a mess
ixwt 3y ago
They do, kinda. You have to go looking for it. In my testing only provides the latest few videos, not the entire back catalog. But I have a naive understanding of the RSS protocol I didn't see how to get more because they didn't expose a "next" link for the RSS feed.
- aaronax 3y ago
  The only place I have ever seen a "next" link for an RSS feed is WordPress. Sort of a pagination thing you can do with the URL.
- dugite-code 3y ago
  RSS isn't supposed to be an Archive, It's an activity feed. Best practice has providers trimming the XML file to the latest X items. You can stylize and embed things like a next link in an RSS feed but that should just point you to yet another XML file and it's not part of the standard.
  - ttepasse 3y ago
    There is RFC 5005, Feed Paging and Archiving, which enables that, but feedreader support is practically nonexistent. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5005 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5005
- deleted 3y ago
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ozarker 3y ago
You’re right It’s there but they don’t make it easy to get a feed. I also like having a single feed with new vids from every channel I’m subscribed to on invidious which I don’t think is possible on YouTube
- dugite-code 3y ago
  I can see the appeal of having a full feed RSS so you don't subscribe in two places, But I don't login and only use the RSS feeds. I use TT-RSS and just do subfolders for my feeds. If I click the Youtube folder it displays all the youtube feeds in order but I still have the option to drill down per channel.
- mananaysiempre 3y ago
  > I also like having a single feed with new vids from every channel I’m subscribed to on invidious which I don’t think is possible on YouTube That seems contrary to the idea that your RSS reader should be the one place you control your subscriptions from. Which is something of a general problem—an on-site list of subscriptions is certainly also useful in ways the reader can’t really replicate in a generic way, yet it’s in the user’s interest to be the only one in control of that list instead of involving the website in it. I can’t think of a good way to deal with this.

the pupdates are a mess

ixwt 3y ago

They do, kinda. You have to go looking for it. In my testing only provides the latest few videos, not the entire back catalog. But I have a naive understanding of the RSS protocol I didn't see how to get more because they didn't expose a "next" link for the RSS feed.

aaronax 3y ago
The only place I have ever seen a "next" link for an RSS feed is WordPress. Sort of a pagination thing you can do with the URL.
dugite-code 3y ago
RSS isn't supposed to be an Archive, It's an activity feed. Best practice has providers trimming the XML file to the latest X items. You can stylize and embed things like a next link in an RSS feed but that should just point you to yet another XML file and it's not part of the standard.
- ttepasse 3y ago
  There is RFC 5005, Feed Paging and Archiving, which enables that, but feedreader support is practically nonexistent. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5005 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5005
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ozarker 3y ago

You’re right It’s there but they don’t make it easy to get a feed. I also like having a single feed with new vids from every channel I’m subscribed to on invidious which I don’t think is possible on YouTube

dugite-code 3y ago
I can see the appeal of having a full feed RSS so you don't subscribe in two places, But I don't login and only use the RSS feeds. I use TT-RSS and just do subfolders for my feeds. If I click the Youtube folder it displays all the youtube feeds in order but I still have the option to drill down per channel.
mananaysiempre 3y ago
> I also like having a single feed with new vids from every channel I’m subscribed to on invidious which I don’t think is possible on YouTube That seems contrary to the idea that your RSS reader should be the one place you control your subscriptions from. Which is something of a general problem—an on-site list of subscriptions is certainly also useful in ways the reader can’t really replicate in a generic way, yet it’s in the user’s interest to be the only one in control of that list instead of involving the website in it. I can’t think of a good way to deal with this.