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Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots (techcrunch.com)
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[–] horsesaysweird@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I also noticed the youtube rss feeds are returning 404s now as well.

They are still working for me. Example: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC5rT7F0PGNuD54rJ9kzgWzw

EDIT: This is the command I use to convert YouTube channel URLs into RSS URLs:

curl --silent "https://www.youtube.com/@thecodyreeder" \
    | grep -Po '"rssUrl"\s*:\s*"[^"]+"' \
    | cut -d : -f 2- | tr -d \"
[–] notptr@lemmy.cyberia9.org 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah they work sometimes. I tried to add a new channel to my rss reader and I got a 404.

My existing feeds still work but sometimes stop to.

[–] Ordoviz@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

BTW, instead of getting the channel ID using curl, you could also just click the "Share channel" button in the channel description.

[–] horsesaysweird@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

But then I'd have to open the URL in the browser which needs a minute to load, and then I have to click away several cookie banners or wait for an extension to do it for me. Opening a YouTube URL always feels like I'm installing an app.