Youtube: the videos.xml endpoint occasionally returns 404

[arokettu]

It seems that Google broke or removed the endpoint that RSS Bridge uses. I get 404 both locally and on my server

[arokettu]

They still have proper links in the head so there is still hope it's a broken release
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=...">

[em92]

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[em92]

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Btw, there is also another bug over there #1875
I forgot to ping you on that thread

[rmdes]

Same here, even though on Youtube side, things seems to be operational
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCcVSSE0tadIdtvtFQqm3M-g

[arokettu]

@rmdes Probably they are rolling out the fix and some nodes have not been updated yet. That or you should clean cache on your instance of the bridge

Things seem starting to work for me. If nothing gets broken again in a day I will close this

[ORelio]

Hi, on my side, my YouTube feeds are also working. Maybe something was temporarily broken at YouTube, or you IP got blacklisted.

[rmdes]

Cleaned the cache, now it works with using channel ID : UCcVSSE0tadIdtvtFQqm3M-g
Thanks (forgot about the cache)

[mitsukarenai]

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That is correct, sorry I won't have the time and resources to maintain the bridge 🙁

[em92]

Closing as false alert

[em92]

Looks like return 404 again.

[em92]

False alert again. I will leave issue open, 'cos we need to run fallback on 404.

[ORelio]

Hi, I can confirm that my feeds are also still working but temporarily had this error due to API giving 404.

[Riduidel]

I don't know for you, but since september, I'm getting 404 errors when trying to fetch channel videos from https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCK4PgggS7ClfRwVkLIrcruw

[Riduidel]

Seems like those problems are known at scale https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/nbznqx/youtube_rss_feeds_down/ but they always have seemed to be temporary https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/pucaqc/youtube_stopped_supporting_rss_feeds_this_very/

[arokettu]

@Riduidel "This account has been terminated because we received multiple third-party claims of copyright infringement regarding material that the user posted." Your case is an honest 404

[ORelio]

I also have 404 from time to time but the feed always come back shortly after.

[arokettu]

Removed the sense of emergency from the title. So, should it be handled gracefully or what? I think it can be safely closed again

[em92]

It should be handled. I will fix it, when I have time

[dvikan]

one option is to not fail on 404. but that would make it hard to know whether the inputted channel name is wrong :p