YouTube RSS video feeds show videos from years ago

[Jiehong]

Describe the bug

Since the new web ui version of commafeed, old YouTube videos appear in the feed, even they are from many years ago.

for example, today I got the following video in my feed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5dGlgdHlaY

Because I’m following the rss feed of https://www.youtube.com/@ThisOldTony/videos.

in commafeed.com, the feed url in this example is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC5NO8MgTQKHAWXp6z8Xl7yQ

Environment (please complete the following information):

• CommaFeed version (or "commafeed.com"): commafeed.com
• Browser [e.g. chrome, firefox]: any
• Device [e.g. desktop, mobile]: any

Additional context

this used to work just fine. This happens for so many YouTube feeds now. The date displayed in commafeed.com seems wrong: when clicking the video and going to YouTube, it shows xx years ago (I’ve had between 1 and 12 years ago)

[Athou]

I think you're right. Since January there's a new setting maxEntriesAgeDays that deletes entries older than a year from the database to keep the size of the database in check.

I think what's happening is:

• The video was detected by CommaFeed when it was published
• When the video was a year old, it was deleted from the database
• Someone recently edited the description of the video:
• CommaFeed incorrectly reads the updated field instead of the published field and considers it's a new video

I will try to fix this ASAP.

[Athou]

I just deployed a fix on commafeed.com that should fix this. Let me know here if it happens again!

[Jiehong]

@Athou thanks a lot for such a quick and efficient response!

I’ll monitor it.

You’re outstanding :)