video link in RSS

[jcmag]

Hi,

In case of a video, the RSS feed just contains a link to a thumbnail picture. Would it be possible to add a link to the video?

[ramhejazi]

I second this. I was going to open an issue regarding this. Adding an enclosure entry to RSS items for videos can make the RSS feature much more useful. This will also, probably, reduce the amount of scraping done by some users as they will have a better way of accessing information.

[markcellus]

Yeah, and some RSS readers will actually download the enclosure and let you play the video right inside of the RSS reader. 👍

[shirser121]

I second this. I was going to open an issue regarding this. Adding an enclosure entry to RSS items for videos can make the RSS feature much more useful. This will also, probably, reduce the amount of scraping done by some users as they will have a better way of accessing information.

Can i ask where this is standing?

[shelomito12]

This would be really nice to have in RSS feeds... any ETA on this?

[fnxweb]

Dup of #421 ?

[zedeus]

Not quite, that issue is specifically about not needing to click the link.

[thomas-333]

In case anyone is interested, this is what I'm running on my personal instance to make it obvious when there is an embedded video:

diff --git a/src/views/rss.nimf b/src/views/rss.nimf
index 9324e75..4daad1a 100644
--- a/src/views/rss.nimf
+++ b/src/views/rss.nimf
@@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ Twitter feed for: ${desc}. Generated by ${cfg.hostname}
 <img src="${urlPrefix}${getPicUrl(photo)}" style="max-width:250px;" />
 #  end for
 #elif tweet.video.isSome:
-<img src="${urlPrefix}${getPicUrl(get(tweet.video).thumb)}" style="max-width:250px;" />
+<a href="${urlPrefix}${getLink(tweet)}">
+    <img src="${urlPrefix}${getPicUrl(get(tweet.video).thumb)}" style="max-width:250px;" />
+    <br>Click for video
+</a>
 #elif tweet.gif.isSome:
 #  let thumb = &"{urlPrefix}{getPicUrl(get(tweet.gif).thumb)}"
 #  let url = &"{urlPrefix}{getPicUrl(get(tweet.gif).url)}"