Hey!
I've wanted to include shorts for some time, but doing so always seemed complicated. Then I discovered that there are some hidden RSS feeds on YouTube that I wasn't aware of. For your own education, here is how it works:
Every YouTube channel has an RSS feed, which looks like this:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=cid
Where the CID is the ID of the channel. However, you can also get RSS Feeds of playlists as well. It turns out that there are some hidden playlists. One for all uploads, one for long form uploads, one for short form uploads, and one for livestreams.
- All Uploads (default):
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=cid
- All Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UUcid
- No Shorts (aka long form only):
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UULFcid
- YouTube Shorts:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UUSHcid
- Live Streams:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UULVcid
Previously, I had a hard coded filter for shorts to exclude them from videos. This allows me to not only allow shorts, but silo them in their own community!
So, now we have !videos@news.abolish.capital and !shorts@news.abolish.capital.
