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  • 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
  • Hush, don't remind them that they have RSS feeds, or they might remove them altogether.
    by TonyTrapp
  • 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
  • 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
  • > 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
  • 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...

    by dawidpotocki

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