A bunch of my youtube feeds are broken showing Error (500) sine sometime this morning. Some are showing as misbehaving, others are having the same issue but not yet showing as missbehaving as they don’t fetch as often.
EDIT: Scratch that, some of the feeds using that latter format are showing the errors as well, those feed can however be opened in a browser with no issue and are the ones actually used in the “application/rss+xml” links on Youtube.
(Why is it not possible to click a misbehaving feed and access its items, they could be relevant even if the feed has gone away.)
Still broken and several more feeds showing has misbehaving now.
I checked settings for almost all my youtube feeds and it seem I have two that are working, one of which I added yesterday. Doing an insta-fetch on these work. The rest have 500 error on every fetch since last morning and insta-fetch fails.
These are the working ones:
/site/6048394
/site/9544744
To confuse things further there are new items in some feeds despite all fetches failing for two days. That’s due to the real-time updates YouTube feeds say they get I guess?
I’ll fix YouTube, but this request is a great one and I’m about to launch a change to how exception feeds work so that you can now click on them and instead you’ll see a header that shows they need fixing, as opposed to forcing you to fix it right then and there.
Well those external clients will need to implement the full API to see those dialogs and handle them. I don’t see that happening, so the web is the only place to check for these sorts of things. I don’t know if there’s a way to get Reeder to see sites as broken.
For my part, I’m not worried about them seeing a site as broken in Reeder, as long as things work when the site gets fixed.
Or on the flip side, I don’t want Reeder to get a “This article is b0rked” stub that never gets replaced when/if the underlying issue is resolved. I’m actually not sure if Reeder updates articles or not.
The feed appears to be working fine when you go directly to that URL. But when I try to add it as a new site in NewsBlur, I get the following error: “There was a problem trying to add this site. Please try a different URL.“
I can’t add that one either, but I could add another one. Sometimes youtube are added but are empty and without name.
Newsblur seem to be doing a bunch of weird things with youtube. Most of the time they get added as gdata.youtube.com even though that isn’t the official feed URL and doesn’t actually work if visited in a browser.
During the outage I tried using openrss which should work like openrss.org/youtube.com/@britishfilminstitute, almost want to use them anyway since the filter shorts and upcoming videos, however newsblur seems to bypass them add try to add the regular newsblur feed anyway.
