Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds?

Posted by renegat0x0 on Monday January 29, 2024 @07:30AM
from the self-post dept.

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

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Re:Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds? by johnsbrayton on Monday January 29, 2024 @08:37AM (#39176067)

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

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Re:Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds? by renegat0x0 on Monday January 29, 2024 @08:40AM (#39176090)

I confirm. Now I see 404s now.

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Re:Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds? by renegat0x0 on Monday January 29, 2024 @02:03PM (#39180810)

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.

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Re:Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds? by vclouder on Monday January 29, 2024 @10:15AM (#39177170)

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

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Re:Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds? by mortallywounded on Monday January 29, 2024 @12:57PM (#39179630)

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

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Re:Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds? by happytoexplain on Monday January 29, 2024 @03:42PM (#39182239)

They are tied to YouTube's, I believe.

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Re:Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds? by EvanAnderson on Monday January 29, 2024 @12:57PM (#39179642)

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

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Re:Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds? by DIYgod on Monday January 29, 2024 @12:58PM (#39179661)

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

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Re:Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds? by JamesNay on Monday January 29, 2024 @02:39PM (#39181342)

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

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Re:Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds? by renegat0x0 on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @02:52AM (#39187432)

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:

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Re:Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds? by trekz on Monday January 29, 2024 @09:24PM (#39185680)

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

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

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Re:Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds? by bertman on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @01:11AM (#39186898)

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

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