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I was looking into this a few days ago, but was having a hard time finding an RSS reader that was desktop software and handled Youtube feeds. I couldn’t find an

I was looking into this a few days ago, but was having a hard time finding an RSS reader that was desktop software and handled Youtube feeds. I couldn’t find anything that wasn’t tied to a SaaS or required hosting online.

unknown321 1y ago
Thunderbird handles youtube feeds just fine.
semyonsh 1y ago
If you're on iOS or MacOS I can highly recommend NetNewsWire (https://netnewswire.com/ https://netnewswire.com/).
- username223 1y ago
  Seconded. I've been using NetNewsWire for a couple of decades, and it does the unglamorous job of displaying feeds without ads, nags, or feature churn.
- righthand 1y ago
  Linux :/ sorry…
kevincox 1y ago
What readers have you tried? What do you mean by "handled YouTube feeds". YouTube feeds just work as far as I am aware, they are fairly regular feeds. Are you expecting something in particular?
- righthand 1y ago
  Requirements: - Linux support - doesn’t make me click a link and load the video in the browser, but plays in app Akregator on KDE Plasma doesn’t support this, but you’d think “video/podcast” support would be a feature listed in the bullets of the feed reader software. A lot of the readers I looked at did not have it listed on a quick glance.
  - asdff 1y ago
    You can set this up today with newsboat, if you are fine with writing a small helper script that will parse browsing links for "youtube" string and open them directly in mpv. There are a bunch of examples of these sorts of scripts on peoples githubs where they already went through the trouble of writing regex for video and image file links (beyond just youtube) for you. You then add a line in the newsboat config file to set the default browser to your helper script. I extended one to include opening rss subscribed reddit links in rtv in my terminal window, for example.
pierrec 1y ago
I believe yarr fills all your requirements. Can run as standalone on linux, and if you click "read here" the video gets embed. Assuming an extra click is not disqualifying. Note I have not verified this because I host it on a VPS. https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr

unknown321 1y ago

Thunderbird handles youtube feeds just fine.

semyonsh 1y ago

If you're on iOS or MacOS I can highly recommend NetNewsWire (https://netnewswire.com/ https://netnewswire.com/).

username223 1y ago
Seconded. I've been using NetNewsWire for a couple of decades, and it does the unglamorous job of displaying feeds without ads, nags, or feature churn.
righthand 1y ago
Linux :/ sorry…

kevincox 1y ago

What readers have you tried? What do you mean by "handled YouTube feeds". YouTube feeds just work as far as I am aware, they are fairly regular feeds. Are you expecting something in particular?

righthand 1y ago
Requirements: - Linux support - doesn’t make me click a link and load the video in the browser, but plays in app Akregator on KDE Plasma doesn’t support this, but you’d think “video/podcast” support would be a feature listed in the bullets of the feed reader software. A lot of the readers I looked at did not have it listed on a quick glance.
- asdff 1y ago
  You can set this up today with newsboat, if you are fine with writing a small helper script that will parse browsing links for "youtube" string and open them directly in mpv. There are a bunch of examples of these sorts of scripts on peoples githubs where they already went through the trouble of writing regex for video and image file links (beyond just youtube) for you. You then add a line in the newsboat config file to set the default browser to your helper script. I extended one to include opening rss subscribed reddit links in rtv in my terminal window, for example.

pierrec 1y ago

I believe yarr fills all your requirements. Can run as standalone on linux, and if you click "read here" the video gets embed. Assuming an extra click is not disqualifying. Note I have not verified this because I host it on a VPS. https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr