App idea: sumbit an OPML of YT channels. Scrape each for its blog or website. Find its subsequent rss. Return new OPML.
Derivative app: filter each rss feed, removing any post that is not video or multimedia (or just turning it into a media feed.)
For each: can be either client-side for 1 or cloud-enabled for many. Derivative app runs permanently.
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For the main app, enable it to work on any number of websites where people are followed. Good for decoupling and de-silo'ing, and for bringing back rss.
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.
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.
Derivative app: filter each rss feed, removing any post that is not video or multimedia (or just turning it into a media feed.)
For each: can be either client-side for 1 or cloud-enabled for many. Derivative app runs permanently.
-- For the main app, enable it to work on any number of websites where people are followed. Good for decoupling and de-silo'ing, and for bringing back rss.
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.