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I've probably watched (actively and passively) on average, hours of YouTube every day for a decade. In all that time, RSS is exclusively how I've consumed those

I've probably watched (actively and passively) on average, hours of YouTube every day for a decade. In all that time, RSS is exclusively how I've consumed those videos, aside from sometimes clicking on videos in the sidebar of the video I arrived at via RSS. If RSS goes away and no 3rd party is able to restore it, I really don't know what I'd do. I can't imagine stopping watching all of the channels I follow, but I also can't imagine using email or app notifications. Those vectors are simply unacceptable for the nature of this particular information stream.

xz18r 3y ago
There are multiple ways to solve your case: - set up an account with email notifications and use something like KillTheNewsletter to deliver them via RSS - set up your own alternative YouTube frontend (or register for a public one like kavin.rocks) that supports RSS feeds. Things like Piped or Invidious support it iirc. - get an actual YouTube account and work with subscriptions. You support the channel you like with it and have everything in a handy overview. I am a big time RSS user but never took the time to move it all over there, been using the subscriptions page as my YouTube “homepage” for a decade now and it works for me.
- happytoexplain 3y ago
  - KillTheNewsletter Looks like I'd have to make a YouTube account for every channel to get separate feeds, or else combine every channel into one big feed. - subscriptions Similarly, it looks like this is just one big list of videos from every channel, with only a handful fitting on screen at once, and they don't go away once I've watched/clicked on the video, so there's no concept of read/unread. It also means I would have yet another aggregation webpage I periodically visit, as opposed to having most of my information feed in two places (one tab for email and one tab for RSS). - set up your own alternative This is currently outside my skillset, but it may ultimately be the direction I go in (if the outage isn't just a bug). Thanks for these nouns - I can use them to get started.
  - EvanAnderson 3y ago
    I'm pretty much in the same boat as you-- all my YouTube consumption has been thru my self-hosted RSS reader. I really like read/unread for all my "media" (blogs, YouTube, etc) in a single place. All those alternatives sound bad to me. I suppose in the short term I will cobble something together w/ yt-dlp to download JSON from YouTube and ETL that into the tt-rss database. That'll work until Google decides it doesn't, too.
ComplexSystems 3y ago
I'm not sure how much programming experience you have, but I'd imagine it'd be a fairly quick Python script to scrape all of your subscriptions and put things together in RSS form. You could probably build a quick Flask app which serves the RSS feed from some custom query string representing a YouTube video id. With ChatGPT you could probably build this out in a day.
- d0mine 3y ago
  To get an idea of how it might look, here's a telegram bot that notifies you about new videos on the channels you have subscribed to. It consists of approximately 150 lines of Python code. You can find the code here: https://gist.github.com/zed/a48da032ace0f4ff1c79cd80854bb8fd https://gist.github.com/zed/a48da032ace0f4ff1c79cd80854bb8fd
  - vdaea 3y ago
    That uses the rss feed to find new videos.
    - d0mine 3y ago
      It utilizes hubbub push-notifications to deliver information about new videos in RSS format. It is unclear whether it requires the corresponding RSS feed to be operational. In any case, it just demonstrates the general approach: subscribe to a topic, and receive new events as soon as they happen without polling. The point is that it doesn't require much code: just glue together corresponding APIs.
- solarkraft 3y ago
  I built something similar (and then never documented it) to generate (audio) podcast feeds from any playlist or channel or grab an audio file from a video: https://github.com/solarkraft/ytdl-podcast https://github.com/solarkraft/ytdl-podcast I haven't used it in a while, so I'm not sure that it currently works, but perhaps it'll contain some useful hints.
- deleted 3y ago
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PikachuEXE 3y ago
Use https://freetubeapp.io https://freetubeapp.io for desktop OSes I think there are other apps for mobile OSes (no idea I don't watch YT on mobile
WithinReason 3y ago
Many creators also upload their videos to https://odysee.com/ https://odysee.com/ which supports RSS feeds, for example: https://odysee.com/$/rss/@veritasium:f https://odysee.com/$/rss/@veritasium:f
Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y ago
Email notifications are gone too, by the way

xz18r 3y ago

There are multiple ways to solve your case: - set up an account with email notifications and use something like KillTheNewsletter to deliver them via RSS - set up your own alternative YouTube frontend (or register for a public one like kavin.rocks) that supports RSS feeds. Things like Piped or Invidious support it iirc. - get an actual YouTube account and work with subscriptions. You support the channel you like with it and have everything in a handy overview. I am a big time RSS user but never took the time to move it all over there, been using the subscriptions page as my YouTube “homepage” for a decade now and it works for me.

happytoexplain 3y ago
- KillTheNewsletter Looks like I'd have to make a YouTube account for every channel to get separate feeds, or else combine every channel into one big feed. - subscriptions Similarly, it looks like this is just one big list of videos from every channel, with only a handful fitting on screen at once, and they don't go away once I've watched/clicked on the video, so there's no concept of read/unread. It also means I would have yet another aggregation webpage I periodically visit, as opposed to having most of my information feed in two places (one tab for email and one tab for RSS). - set up your own alternative This is currently outside my skillset, but it may ultimately be the direction I go in (if the outage isn't just a bug). Thanks for these nouns - I can use them to get started.
- EvanAnderson 3y ago
  I'm pretty much in the same boat as you-- all my YouTube consumption has been thru my self-hosted RSS reader. I really like read/unread for all my "media" (blogs, YouTube, etc) in a single place. All those alternatives sound bad to me. I suppose in the short term I will cobble something together w/ yt-dlp to download JSON from YouTube and ETL that into the tt-rss database. That'll work until Google decides it doesn't, too.

ComplexSystems 3y ago

I'm not sure how much programming experience you have, but I'd imagine it'd be a fairly quick Python script to scrape all of your subscriptions and put things together in RSS form. You could probably build a quick Flask app which serves the RSS feed from some custom query string representing a YouTube video id. With ChatGPT you could probably build this out in a day.

d0mine 3y ago
To get an idea of how it might look, here's a telegram bot that notifies you about new videos on the channels you have subscribed to. It consists of approximately 150 lines of Python code. You can find the code here: https://gist.github.com/zed/a48da032ace0f4ff1c79cd80854bb8fd https://gist.github.com/zed/a48da032ace0f4ff1c79cd80854bb8fd
- vdaea 3y ago
  That uses the rss feed to find new videos.
  - d0mine 3y ago
    It utilizes hubbub push-notifications to deliver information about new videos in RSS format. It is unclear whether it requires the corresponding RSS feed to be operational. In any case, it just demonstrates the general approach: subscribe to a topic, and receive new events as soon as they happen without polling. The point is that it doesn't require much code: just glue together corresponding APIs.
solarkraft 3y ago
I built something similar (and then never documented it) to generate (audio) podcast feeds from any playlist or channel or grab an audio file from a video: https://github.com/solarkraft/ytdl-podcast https://github.com/solarkraft/ytdl-podcast I haven't used it in a while, so I'm not sure that it currently works, but perhaps it'll contain some useful hints.
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PikachuEXE 3y ago

Use https://freetubeapp.io https://freetubeapp.io for desktop OSes I think there are other apps for mobile OSes (no idea I don't watch YT on mobile

WithinReason 3y ago

Many creators also upload their videos to https://odysee.com/ https://odysee.com/ which supports RSS feeds, for example: https://odysee.com/$/rss/@veritasium:f https://odysee.com/$/rss/@veritasium:f

Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y ago

Email notifications are gone too, by the way