feed thumbnail and description missing for certain sites

[nsklaus]

NetNewsWire have some problems parsing and getting proper feed for certain sites:

• youtube: fails to get both video thumbnail and the video description text.
• bitchute: it pulls the description text correctly but fails getting the video thumbnail.
• bittube: it pulls the description text correctly but fails to get video thumbnail

in comparison

• lbry/odysee: all ok (using lbry-channel-feed)
• invidio.us clones: all ok

[brentsimmons]

Would you provide some example feed URLs?

Also: are you using On My Mac, Feedly, or Feedbin?

[nsklaus]

i'm using 'on my mac'

here are example of feed urls with problems: youtube channel bitchute channel bittube channel

below are feeds urls that work well, i added them for comparison: invidio.us channel lbry/odysee channel

these are ready to add in NetNewsWire. i have many video channels as rss subscription, i find it handy to keep track of all the channel i usually watch that way.

[nsklaus]

comparing the different rss client available, to put things in perspective.

vienna:

• youtube fail (only get description text right, but fail to show thumbnail)
• bitchute fail (same.. only text description, no thumbnail)
• lbry ok

reeder:

• youtube ok (thumbnail and description text)
• bitchute fail (only description text shown, no thumbnail)
• lbry ok

news explorer:

• youtube ok
• bitchute ok
• lbry ok

netnewswire:

• youtube fail (no text, no thumbnail)
• bitchute fail (text ok, but no thumbnail)
• lbry ok

[vincode-io]

It looks like we would have to extend NNW to use Media RSS for us to get the data out of the Youtube feed and the Bittube feed. It looks like Feedbin supports this for Youtube at least.

We would need to support the enclosure element to get Bitchute to display the preview.