RSS bug

[marteaurouge]

Some channels RSS are not usable on Newpipe (you can't click on the RSS button, to send the url to your aggregator).

Explanation: Youtube is using two kind of RSS feeds, depending on your channels name:

• if your channel's name is not set, the syntax is: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL-ID
• if your channel's name is set, the syntax is (both works) https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=username or https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=channelid

Example with NBC News (username is set, both RSS work): https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=NBCNews https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCeY0bbntWzzVIaj2z3QigXg

How to check for this? just go to a channel, and open the "videos'' tab, you'll either get:

https://www.youtube.com/user/USERNAME-HERE/videos or https://www.youtube.com/channel/CHANNEL-ID-HERE/videos

So Newspipe at the moment is only managing the RSS if the channel has a username set.

Example of a channel with no username set: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFIrTpC6LJDqzPMeBfgAGrQ/videos (RSS won't work on Newspipe)

[aladar42]

Just wanted to pop in and say I would appreciate this bug being looked at very much. Thank you. :)

[mauriciocolli]

This issue is related to NewPipeExtractor (core repository).