Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds?

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by renegat0x0 • 2 years ago

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I have noticed Google today started displaying me a page, when I access RSS feed, like:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UClOGLGPOqlAiLmOvXW5lKbw

The text displayed:

""" We're sorry...

... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. See Google Help for more information. """

Disclaimer: I have a automated RSS reader enabled in my network: https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive

johnsbrayton• 2 years ago

I am seeing 404s for YouTube’s RSS feeds. I hope this is a temporary bug.

renegat0x03• 2 years ago

I confirm. Now I see 404s now.

renegat0x03• 2 years ago

Either it is a bug, or start of a cat-and-mouse play.

I can switch to rss hub app, as suggested in a other comment, but I do not know how long this workaround will work.

Eventually every solution will stop working, if that is the desire of our corporate overlords.

vclouder• 2 years ago

I am also trying to sub using RSS and I get no response. Odd times for sure.

mortallywounded• 2 years ago

Can you can use an Invidious instance's RSS feed or are they tied to Youtube's?

happytoexplain• 2 years ago

They are tied to YouTube's, I believe.

EvanAnderson• 2 years ago

Seeing the same thing here. I'm also hoping this is a temporary bug. If not, I guess I'm done w/ Youtube.

DIYgod• 2 years ago

I can still use RSSHub to subscribe: https://rsshub.app/youtube/channel/UClOGLGPOqlAiLmOvXW5lKbw

It also supports more features: https://docs.rsshub.app/routes/social-media#youtube

JamesNay• 2 years ago

... and you need an api key, if you want to run that service yourself

renegat0x03• 2 years ago

In some other threads people write that invidious also may have problems. Eventually any bot can have problems when reading RSS feeds. Maybe the ones with API key will not have problems. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/1aduw8j/did_youtube_ki...

Google issue tracker: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/322736318?pli=1

Status: Won't Fix (Infeasible)

Unfortunately, there's nothing we could do here if it's the anti abuse mechanism that prevented the call to happen.

Also, this tracker isn't meant for that RSS issues. This issue tracker is mainly for Youtube APIs described in the link below:

trekz• 2 years ago

You can try openrss by navigating to the user profile and adding openrss.org in front

https://openrss.org/www.youtube.com/@MandaloreGaming/videos

bertman• 2 years ago

Seems to have been temporary, everything's working again now.

Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds?

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