Media-RSS support - Githubissues

azmeuk commented 4 years ago

(this follows the discussion started at sourceforge) Some video platform like Youtube or Peertube use the Media-RSS extension to provide metadata about the videos. They generally do not use the whole tags available, but provide tags for the video description, the thumbnail, and the number of views.

It would be amazing if RssOwl could at least display the thumbnail and the description for videos.

An extract of a Youtube feed:

  <media:group>
   <media:title>Can You Observe a Typical Universe?</media:title>
   <media:content url="https://www.youtube.com/v/q-6oU3jXAho?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="390"/>
   <media:thumbnail url="https://i2.ytimg.com/vi/q-6oU3jXAho/hqdefault.jpg" width="480" height="360"/>
   <media:description>Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! 
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...</media:description>
   <media:community>
    <media:starRating count="7709" average="4.92" min="1" max="5"/>
    <media:statistics views="176224"/>
   </media:community>http://www.rssboard.org/media-rss
  </media:group>

How it is displayed: rssowl-youtube

An extract of a Peertube feed:


<media:group>
                <media:content type="application/x-bittorrent" url="https://framatube.org/static/torrents/ed5c048d-01f3-4ceb-97db-6e278de512b0-1080.torrent" isDefault="true">
                </media:content>
                <media:content type="application/x-bittorrent" url="https://framatube.org/static/torrents/ed5c048d-01f3-4ceb-97db-6e278de512b0-720.torrent">
                </media:content>
                <media:content type="application/x-bittorrent" url="https://framatube.org/static/torrents/ed5c048d-01f3-4ceb-97db-6e278de512b0-480.torrent">
                </media:content>
                <media:content type="application/x-bittorrent" url="https://framatube.org/static/torrents/ed5c048d-01f3-4ceb-97db-6e278de512b0-360.torrent">
                </media:content>
                <media:content type="application/x-bittorrent" url="https://framatube.org/static/torrents/ed5c048d-01f3-4ceb-97db-6e278de512b0-240.torrent">
                </media:content>
                <media:rating>nonadult</media:rating>
            </media:group>
            <media:thumbnail url="https://framatube.org/static/thumbnails/ed5c048d-01f3-4ceb-97db-6e278de512b0.jpg" height="122" width="223">
            </media:thumbnail>

How it is displayed: rssowl-peertube

JohnPlanetary commented 4 years ago

I agree with these being needed! I was coming now to request the same kind of thing.

For Youtube I would like to see also some additional AI (Artificial Intelligence):

Properly detect the dates of the published videos with the <published> and <updated> tags.
Display the video link using either the <yt:videoId> tag to compose it or get it from <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEOID"/> tag.
Display the video on the RSSOwlnix using the embed feature and pulling the video id from the <yt:videoId> tag, example: https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoId?autoplay=0 So that the person can see it directly in the reader without needing to open the browser. If not possible to program that way (specially for Youtube, and maybe a few more very highly used video web sites) at least that link to the video.
Display the video image properly with the <media:thumbnail url="https://imageaddress" width="480" height="360"/> tag.
Detect the many possible different URL's used for youtube to get the RSS feed URL from the URL the user uses. For example, if I use "https://www.youtube.com/user/beatrizmleonardoful" I will get the RSS feed tag "rssUrl" that will point to: "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCNLr-qczxSYccaMVzit7RVg" but if I use "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNLr-qczxSYccaMVzit7RVg", "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNLr-qczxSYccaMVzit7RVg/", "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNLr-qczxSYccaMVzit7RVg/videos", "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzo1yKiVxkvFTryrsRg7KIw/channels" while the channel ID is right there in the URL the RSSOwlnix is not "smart" enough to recognize that it can get the Channel ID from the URL the user just supply to it and convert it to "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCNLr-qczxSYccaMVzit7RVg" and then get the proper data. It would be nice for it to detect, because not all channels have the friendly name, or are almost impossible to discover.

Xyrio commented 4 years ago

media tags are already supported partially.

published and updated are loaded correclty
youbute video link is used when you double click or drag the news
media:content links are provided as attachment downloads for youtube that links to old flash version of video which youtube itself does not support anymore

the other stuff is ignored

Xyrio commented 3 years ago

added more to 2.9.0

deepspaceaxolotl commented 1 year ago

Any possibility of showing info about the video length? "duration" seems to be a thing. I think being able to see the video length in (hh:)mm:ss format as a column would be ideal.

Xyrio commented 1 year ago

i can add it but i dont know of any site that uses/provides it (i.e. youtube doesnt)

deepspaceaxolotl commented 1 year ago

Ah, that's a bit of a shame. PeerTube seems to use it though? So I think it'd be worth it to add it as a column.

If I knew how to code for RSSOwl, I'd try to figure out some way to extract the duration for YouTube videos, but I don't think I'm skilled enough to do that. Ideally though, YouTube should start using the "duration" media tag; I wonder if it'd be possible to convince them to do that, hmm...

(Also, I want to give a huge thanks to you for continuing to work on this project, it means a lot as it's still the best RSS reader out there for me.)

Xyrio / RSSOwlnix

Media-RSS support #74