FEATURE REQUEST: Can NNW deduce an RSS feed from a youtube video URL?

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FEATURE REQUEST: Can NNW deduce an RSS feed from a youtube video URL? #4362

Open cquenelle opened 5 days ago

cquenelle commented 5 days ago

I know I'm asking for a heuristic that will eventually break. But I would like to be able to add a feed in NNW and paste a URL pointing at a youtube video, and have NNW:

search source code of web page for "channel_id="
take the ID string that follows the =
and create a feed url like: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=$ID

That would let me simply and easily subscribe to youtube channels in NNW.

I'm not sure if this has already been suggested, but it seems valuable, even thought it encodes an implementation detail of the youtube pages.

It looks like openrss.org should what I want if I use NNW to subscribe to a feed with openrss.org at the start, but it doesn't seem to work.

trekzavier commented 5 days ago

I've been using open rss. it basically does what you're asking. when you on any youtube video, just add openrss.org to front of youtube channel URL and it will generate the rss feed for the youtube channel.

cquenelle commented 5 days ago

It seems like openrss.org should do what I want. But I can't get it to work f'or YouTube.

FWIW: The main "channel" page on you tube doesn't have the channel_id anywhere in the source. To get the channel_id you have to look at the source code for one of the videos on the channel.

When I use openrss on either the YouTube channel page or one of the videos on the channel, it doesn't seem to work. Does openrrs work for you with YouTube?

trekzavier commented 5 days ago

what is the channel? i can check to see if it work for you

trekzavier commented 5 days ago

https://openrss.org/www.youtube.com/@NickHeinOfficialPage/videos is the RSS feed for https://www.youtube.com/@NickHeinOfficialPage/videos. That works for me.

cquenelle commented 5 days ago

I just tried a random video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlEByKfcNmk

But now that I read more I think openers is not what I want. I don't need a feed to be created on a third party site. The feed already exists in YouTube, but there is no button or page that links to the rss feed. So I need to use a few steps to create the correct url.

cquenelle commented 5 days ago

I tried pasting the feed URL you showed into NetNewsWire and it said "no feed" So something weird is happening for me.

trekzavier commented 5 days ago

Oh NetNewsWire is probably blocking open rss. The feed works for me in Inoreader and just tried in Feedbin and works as well. Sounds like there is something going on with NetNewsWire. will have to wait until developer fixes it i guess