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  • Apparently, this guy doesn't get that RSS is a problem to Google, that they already tried to kill. Of course the neglect is by design. The only reason they keep RSS going is that there is a return on it and it does bring in users - such as me.
    by verisimi
  • Unfortunately, navigating to this page seems to display:

    > Too many requests are being made from an unsupported application. This unfortunately degrades the experience and makes feeds slow for everyone else. Please try back later.

    by spondyl
  • My first page load just now responded “Sorry / We seem to be having some technical difficulties. Hang tight...” (unknown status code). Second eventually returned 502 Gateway Timeout. Third gave 429 with the message you describe. Fourth eventually gave the actual page.
    by chrismorgan
  • > Nobody asked for shorts in their feed

    This has been a big issue for me. I currently use RSS exclusively to view the YouTube channels that I'm subscribed to -- currently about 75 channels (and 27 nebula channels) -- and over half of my YouTube feeds are filled with several shorts (sometimes multiple ones by the same creator per day).

    Looking for hashtags in the title and marking those videos as read is essentially muscle memory at this point.

    by ajdude
  • Out of curiosity, are you filtering out shorts because of YouTube's terrible Shorts UI, or solely because of shorts' content quality?
    by sheept
  • I went to see a video I'd uploaded to Youtube a while ago and it's now a short. I have no idea how it became a youtube short. Either I grandpa'd it or they upgrade all vertical form video to shorts.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qc5PKbJ3tq4

    Entirely possible it's the former.

    by arjie
  • I've had success marking any URL with /shorts/ in it as read. I use FreshRSS and its URL matching is pretty reliable.
    by unbolted3032
  • I see people are doing scripts or other things to remove shorts from their feeds, but there is a simpler solution. Take your RSS URL of a channel, e.g.:

    https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCxSGC9B...

    Replace the `channel_id` with `playlist_id` and replace `UC` with `UULF`. This prefix will only list normal videos:

    https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UULFxSG...

    ----

    From this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032508

    by dflock
  • I already complained about post on reddit. It says that link to RSS is hidden, which is not true IMHO.

    YouTube page contains HTML link to RSS feed in channel page, and most RSS clients should just pick it up just fine.

    By the way I maintain a list of feeds, many of them are youtube in link below, so if you would like to find a channel you can use it

    Links:

    h ttps://github.com/rumca-js/awesome-database-feeds

    by renegat0x0
  • Hidden is a pretty reasonable synonym for "not visible".
    by oneeyedpigeon
  • My pet project is showing Youtube feeds nicely, along with other rss feeds, twitter feeds and searches and telegram channels. I've been working on it for the past year, still in beta, but I'd love to get feedbacks: https://aggly.com
    by krembo
  • tried to use it but gave up after the 3rd popup modal

    just let me use the thing

    by fusslo
  • Looks nice, maybe it lacks some categories. For example I was looking for cycling (both as sport and outdoor activity), bikepacking and chess but there doesn't seem to be anything related
    by flaviolivolsi
  • Interesting idea. How do you get those twitter feeds if I may ask? Are you using nitter?
    by rayill
  • looks nice, but i am using firefox and website is broken, lost of text overlap. horizontal scroll not working etc
    by scbzzzzz
  • Quite interesting, seems like something I would find useful. However, is there documentation or even an "About" page anywhere? Some info on which sites are supported and how to add them, as well as user limits? At least on mobile (which seems surprisingly nice, from what I can see), I don't see it.

    I do like the overall design and the customizability.

    EDIT: I found some info in the miniscule "Terms of Use" link at the bottom of the page when I clicked on the link to create a new account: https://aggly.com/terms

    And then I guessed at the url for pricing information by typing in aggly.com/pricing, which redirected me to: https://aggly.com/account (I don't know how to get there from the home page, though)

    I haven't found info on what "API access" is good for, though. Is there a description?

    Also, would there be any way to integrate paid SubStack subscriptions? (I admittedly haven't looked into this much)

    EDIT 2: also, is there an option for a more compact view of a feed, with just the titles and no images? Also, is there a way to filter a feed (or a whole bunch of feeds) by date range? Otherwise, I can see it becoming pretty hard to find something older, eventually, having to click "load more" over and over again...

    by Esn024
  • Hush, don't remind them that they have RSS feeds, or they might remove them altogether.
    by TonyTrapp
  • I thought they already did a decade ago.
    by Pay08
  • > Hush, don't remind them that they have RSS feeds, or they might remove them altogether.

    Twitter had RSS feeds many moons ago:

    * https://www.seroundtable.com/twitter-rss-depreciated-16973.h...

    by throw0101c
  • For real. There has to be an RSS fan high up in the company, because RSS allows users to bypass the very thing YT are pushing so hard for i.e. recommendations and shorts.
    by protoster
  • I use a script to read the feed which then checks every video against https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VIDEO_ID. If it loads (200), it's a Short.

    Stupid, but it works.

    by bronlund
  • FYI you can just write a quick script to replace that with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID and it works, at least on a desktop firefox browser with an adblocker on it. Weirdly, it seems to explicitly not work in Discord?
    by kulahan
  • Open RSS, your caching is broken?

      GET /blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken HTTP/1.1
  Host: openrss.org

  HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
  Cache-Control: public,max-age=1200
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
  Date: Wed, 06 May 2026 18:06:13 GMT
  Retry-After: 1162
  Server: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)

  [empty page]
    Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20260506043414/https://openrss.o...
    by aendruk
  • > Access to feeds from this network are restricted due to continued abuse of the service, which brings down the performance of feeds for everyone else. You'll need to use a verification token or use a different network to restore access

    Ahh, good to know that my regular ISP got banned for something I have no clue about. Can't even read the blog.

    by qmarchi
  • I got that at first but it worked after a refresh. So it doesn't look like an actual ban.
    by tuoret
  • I use a medium sized Australian ISP and got the same, maybe they just have whole regions blocked...?
    by notsylver
  • I get that sort of stuff quite a lot - its because my workplace uses a proxy to connect to the intranet, and traffic routed by that proxy is often blocked (zscaler)
    by RugnirViking
  • Same here but I'm using a ssh based proxy to avoid having my local ISP data mine my web traffic. Definitely not going to turn it off either to read a blog.

    I really wish admins banned based on actual behavior instead of IP address != residential/mobile.

    by alyandon
  • > When visiting a YouTube channel, there's no link to follow it in a feed reader, no "add feed" button, nothing.

    Youtube does actually provide a <link> to these feeds, but _only_ if you press refresh in your browser after navigating to a channel's videos page. Their single-page-app breaks feeds and hitting refresh works around this by loading the correct page from scratch.

    (To address the second point in this text: yes having an actual visible feed link or icon on the page itself should also be normalised)

    by hales
  • Please don't remind Google that they still have RSS feeds, they'll just kill them entirely.
    by account42