[Feature] exclude youtube short vids

[i300220]

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I get the rss from several YT channels and some are shordt vids, which seems a new YT feature. I'm not interested in them less than 1 minute long.

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I'd like not to download/list them, exclude them from download/list. I would like to ignore videos shorts like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtxddL08ZOg

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None so far. I'm puzzled at this moment.

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[Alkarex]

Can you show an example of relevant RSS feed?

[i300220]

Gladly. Short vids mixed with normal vids.

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCENLojIE8uEeXAOxgtLiMlQ

[Alkarex]

I cannot immediately spot any information in the feed, which could help filter out the videos based on their length.

 <entry>
  <id>yt:video:NtxddL08ZOg</id>
  <yt:videoId>NtxddL08ZOg</yt:videoId>
  <yt:channelId>UCENLojIE8uEeXAOxgtLiMlQ</yt:channelId>
  <title>My emotions are all in this song ✨ #beatriceflorea #cover #clown #emelisandé</title>
  <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtxddL08ZOg"/>
  <author>
   <name>Beatrice Florea - Singer</name>
   <uri>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCENLojIE8uEeXAOxgtLiMlQ</uri>
  </author>
  <published>2024-05-02T17:01:17+00:00</published>
  <updated>2024-05-02T17:08:24+00:00</updated>
  <media:group>
   <media:title>My emotions are all in this song ✨ #beatriceflorea #cover #clown #emelisandé</media:title>
   <media:content url="https://www.youtube.com/v/NtxddL08ZOg?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="390"/>
   <media:thumbnail url="https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/NtxddL08ZOg/hqdefault.jpg" width="480" height="360"/>
   <media:description></media:description>
   <media:community>
    <media:starRating count="98" average="5.00" min="1" max="5"/>
    <media:statistics views="120"/>
   </media:community>
  </media:group>
 </entry>

[math-GH]

I have the same issue, that I would like to have it filtered out.

But I cannot find any information in the RSS feed, that could help here.

Only an extension could help that fetches the page and checks out the ytp-time-duration

[i300220]

Yeah, https://www.youtube.com/@BeatriceFloreaSinger/videos and https://www.youtube.com/@BeatriceFloreaSinger/shorts share the same rss feed. Annoying... Half are shorts

Will sleep on that, I guess.

[cn-tools]

I'm working on an solution about this wish based on https://github.com/Benjamin-Loison/YouTube-operational-API
It will be integrated into my extension xExtension-YouTubeChannel2RssFeed

Have a look at CNTools#8

[math-GH]

Great :)

Let me move this ticket to the extensions repository.

[cn-tools]

A few seconds ago i checked in a alpha version of xExtension-YouTubeChannel2RssFeed to detect youtube shorts.

Please test it and i'm happy to read your feedback.

[MisuVir]

I tried out the extension but couldn't get it to work. But I did find the easy manual way to exclude shorts by updating the feed URL - after adding the YouTube channel feed, edit the Feed URL from:

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

to

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

Would be nice to see this as a built-in option for FreshRSS.

There are a few different playlist codes that can be used: UU for a playlist of all videos, UULF for a playlist of standard videos, UUSH for a playlist of all shorts, UULV for a playlist of all livestreams.

[i300220]

I tried out the extension but couldn't get it to work.

Probably because there is no more public instance of Benjamin's Youtube-API. You need to install your own.

https://github.com/Benjamin-Loison/YouTube-operational-API