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It does - I think the praise being sung was just that you don't need to know how to construct them. YouTube doesn't have a little orange rectangle "RSS" link to

• k2enemy 9mo ago
  At one point (when I first tried this) I'm pretty sure youtube didn't have a link to an rss feed in the source. I had grown used to going to source and searching for "rss" and "xml." However, I just checked and they definitely do have a link now!
  • onli 9mo ago
    Oh, thanks for the hint! I might be able to remove some code from my feed detection code (on pipes) then. But on a first glance, it seems like alternate links for channels are back, but playlists are missing. Still, that might be a step forward.
    • trekz 9mo ago
      I think openrss.org has YouTube playlist feeds
      • onli 9mo ago
        Yeah, quite possible. You can construct the feed by some rules, mine are here: https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes/blob/4243c9234ddab6a363485e71a7d3ee578cc4c733/blocks/feedblock.rb#L107 https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes/blob/4243c9234ddab6a3... - but then you have to monitor whether it still works periodically. Being able to replace that by proper meta tags would be nice. Using openrss.org as an intermediary might work as well, but not ideal to rely on a third party for that.