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I use rss for youtube and it's been great but lately a lot of "shorts" stuff has been junking up the feeds.

by gfody 3y ago

al_borland 3y ago
Does this still work? This post from a couple weeks ago was saying they were down. Was this a temporary outage, not a removal? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179446 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179446 I like the idea of moving some of the channels I actually like to RSS.
- Hamuko 3y ago
  I'm subscribed to a YouTube playlist RSS feed and it last updated on Saturday.
- dugite-code 3y ago
  Yes it still works, I use it daily. They have had a couple of instances of downtime in the last year, a lot more the Youtube itself, but still very reliable. They removed the OPML export from the subscription manager unfortunately.
tarf 3y ago
If you're using https://newsboat.org https://newsboat.org, you can add a filter (killfile) to remedy this: ignore-article "*" "title =~ \"#shorts\"" ignore-article "*" "content =~ \"#shorts\"" Not perfect though, since it only ignores videos with hashtag '#shorts' in title or description and not all shorts includes that hashtag.
dugite-code 3y ago
Best as I can tell there is no difference between Shorts and full length videos when coming from the RSS feed. It even loads in the full player on the website when following the url. The best I've come up with is to use youtube-dl to get the duration and if it's shorter then 60s drop the item.
- kevincox 3y ago
  I generally just use the thumbnail to quickly manually filter shorts. If the thumbnail is vertical it is 99% a short. A few channels I subscribe to make interesting shorts so I keep them. But for everyone one else the delete key is very fast to press.
ttepasse 3y ago
If you're possibly using Feedbin, I've been successfully using Feedbin's "Actions" to select for Shorts with the search field media_duration and then marking those items unter 60 seconds as read. That feature and the search syntax are a little bit hidden, but are worth it: https://feedbin.com/help/search-syntax/ https://feedbin.com/help/search-syntax/

I use rss for youtube and it's been great but lately a lot of "shorts" stuff has been junking up the feeds.

by gfody 3y ago

I use rss for youtube and it's been great but lately a lot of "shorts" stuff has been junking up the feeds.

Does this still work? This post from a couple weeks ago was saying they were down. Was this a temporary outage, not a removal? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179446 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179446 I like the idea of moving some of the channels I actually like to RSS.

Hamuko 3y ago
I'm subscribed to a YouTube playlist RSS feed and it last updated on Saturday.
dugite-code 3y ago
Yes it still works, I use it daily. They have had a couple of instances of downtime in the last year, a lot more the Youtube itself, but still very reliable. They removed the OPML export from the subscription manager unfortunately.

tarf 3y ago

If you're using https://newsboat.org https://newsboat.org, you can add a filter (killfile) to remedy this: ignore-article "*" "title =~ \"#shorts\"" ignore-article "*" "content =~ \"#shorts\"" Not perfect though, since it only ignores videos with hashtag '#shorts' in title or description and not all shorts includes that hashtag.

dugite-code 3y ago

Best as I can tell there is no difference between Shorts and full length videos when coming from the RSS feed. It even loads in the full player on the website when following the url. The best I've come up with is to use youtube-dl to get the duration and if it's shorter then 60s drop the item.

kevincox 3y ago
I generally just use the thumbnail to quickly manually filter shorts. If the thumbnail is vertical it is 99% a short. A few channels I subscribe to make interesting shorts so I keep them. But for everyone one else the delete key is very fast to press.

ttepasse 3y ago

If you're possibly using Feedbin, I've been successfully using Feedbin's "Actions" to select for Shorts with the search field media_duration and then marking those items unter 60 seconds as read. That feature and the search syntax are a little bit hidden, but are worth it: https://feedbin.com/help/search-syntax/ https://feedbin.com/help/search-syntax/