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Add a Youtube RSS with handles #1629

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akasaka99 opened this issue Nov 7, 2022 · 2 comments
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Add a Youtube RSS with handles #1629

akasaka99 opened this issue Nov 7, 2022 · 2 comments
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  • Vienna version 2.8.3
  • OS version: 10.13.6

Hello, how can I add a Youtube RSS when the Youtube channel does not use a ID but rather a handle like in this case: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisTitusTech/videos
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Eitot commented Nov 12, 2022 •
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It seems that YouTube will still use the channel ID for feeds rather than the handle. This would be the URL:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCg6gPGh8HU2U01vaFCAsvmQ

The URL is properly included on this page, so it should be recognised by Vienna. However, this is not happening here. I will mark this as a bug.

For reference: when I check the source of https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisTitusTech/videos I find the following element in the <body> element:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCg6gPGh8HU2U01vaFCAsvmQ">

This is something Vienna should recognise as a valid RSS feed. If I add this element to the FeedDiscovery.html test file, it is correctly recognised.

I cannot immediately see what the issue is. I wonder if HTML element is added dynamically after the page was loaded.

@Eitot Eitot added the bug 🐞 label Nov 12, 2022
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Eitot commented Nov 12, 2022 •
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This is probably the issue: YouTube redirects to a cookie landing page first when the website is first loaded (at least in the EU), which the user must go through to reach the YouTube content page. The <link> element (above) is not on this page.

I don't think this is fixable for us, since it does require user interaction to get to the next page. I suppose it might be mitigable by using existing cookies, but this only works if the cookies were created by Vienna. I tried using the internal browser to accept YouTube's cookies and get to the content page, but this won't affect the feed discoverer, sadly.

Edit: It actually did work after a restart of Vienna, so the cookies are shared.

@ViennaRSS/maintainers: Any ideas? I am inclined to mark this as wontfix.

@Eitot Eitot closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Dec 22, 2022
@Eitot Eitot added won't fix 👎 The issue will not be addressed. It might work as expected or intended. and removed bug 🐞 labels Dec 22, 2022
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