Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work

32 points by 019 2 days ago|13 comments

Showing 404.

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klez 2 days ago

This really sucks.

I can see why they may not want to support such a niche feature but on the other hand I can't help feeling the hostility of this move.

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graemep 2 days ago

I think it is because it is used by unofficial (i.e. privacy providing and ad skipping) apps.

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kevincox 2 days ago

This happens all of the time. It usually comes back in a few hours. But it has been very unreliable for the last week or two.

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graemep 2 days ago

A lot of people are doing this. Fandom (formerly wikia) has removed its RSS feeds as well.

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olexsmir 2 days ago

From what I hear, this happens all the time, even though it always works for me

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hosteur 2 days ago

I almost never use YouTube anymore. They seem less and less relevant.

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dormento 2 days ago

"I see you enjoy cooking, ancient history and building terrariums. Would you also be interested in a couple of tiktok dance short videos?" ugh..

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klez 2 days ago

Looks like it's back now.

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Elfener 2 days ago

They tend to do that in the morning (UTC) for some reason.

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Brajeshwar 2 days ago

What is wrong with all the good things in the world?

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andrewinardeer 2 days ago

They worked for me 9 mins ago.

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troad 2 days ago

It's been incredibly spotty, it seems to be up for only a few hours each day.

It's surprisingly difficult to add a new YouTube feed to an RSS reader when it returns a 404 or 500 for most of the day. NetNewsWire just refuses to add it, for example. I would appreciate some kind of 'trust me bro' override, but it's sad that such a thing should even be necessary.

An easier solution might be to just run a local RSS mirror, to catch the YouTube feed in the sporadic windows when it does work. Easier still might be just to stop my remaining vestigial use of YouTube.

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sam_josh1 2 days ago

Tried just now. It still works through rss.app route