Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work

29 points | by 019 15 hours ago ago

13 comments

  • klez 13 hours ago 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.

    • graemep 13 hours ago ago

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

  • kevincox 13 hours ago 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.

  • andrewinardeer 2 hours ago ago

    They worked for me 9 mins ago.

  • hosteur 8 hours ago ago

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

    • dormento 7 hours ago 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..

  • olexsmir 10 hours ago ago

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

  • graemep 13 hours ago ago

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

  • klez 13 hours ago ago

    Looks like it's back now.

  • Elfener 11 hours ago ago

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

  • troad 8 hours ago 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.

  • Brajeshwar 12 hours ago ago

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

  • sam_josh1 12 hours ago ago

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