Cannot Add feeds from YouTube Channels

TWiseGuy18

When I go to my favorite YouTube Channels and look for the feed button, it's not there. I've tried many different alternative ways to add feeds by manually adding with as many different URLS I can find, but it still does not work. Is this a bug or is it an update from YouTube that's blocking the feed?

Pesala

@TWiseGuy18 It is a bug that affects the latest Stable and Snapshot builds. I am not sure if it is only YouTube, or also some other sites.

joeduffus

This issue has bugged me too. @WolfXu is correct about subscribing to the channel then going to it from your list of subscribed channels but that's a few steps.

What works for me (until this bug gets fixed in Vivaldi) is
going to the channel main page, then viewing the source code (CTRL-u) and searching for "RSS" in the text. There will be a URL for the feed on the same line that looks similar to this:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCPF_sdVGDuXdXYzEj4NxAfw

Copy that and subscribe to that address in your feed panel.

arcstur

Vivaldi is able to figure out the RSS feed when the link has the channel ID, which is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<CHANNEL-ID>

However, when the link is made with the channel handle (username), it can't. The link is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=<CHANNEL-USER>. However, even this link isn't working for all my channels, so maybe YouTube hasn't updated this RSS feed format? Don't know.

Looking into the source code and finding the RSS works, or, you can try finding the channel URL with the channel id.

kurai

@arcstur said in Cannot Add feeds from YouTube Channels:

Vivaldi is able to figure out the RSS feed when the link has the channel ID, which is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<CHANNEL-ID>

However, when the link is made with the channel handle (username), it can't. The link is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=<CHANNEL-USER>. However, even this link isn't working for all my channels, so maybe YouTube hasn't updated this RSS feed format? Don't know.

Looking into the source code and finding the RSS works, or, you can try finding the channel URL with the channel id.

It's a bug
(VB-95394) Can't subscribe to RSS feed at the Youtube channels

mib2berlin

@kurai
Hi, this report was closed as duplicate.
The master bug is VB-93235, confirmed.

Cheers, mib

daniel

Work around: Go to a channel and then reload the page before clicking the feed button. It’s a bug on YouTube’s side.

Pesala

I still have no Feeds icons on YouTube, even after refreshing the page. e.g. Munro Live.

I am logged in, I am not subscribed to the channel,I tried the video index page, and an individual video GM Follows Ford To Adopt Tesla's NACS Ports.

kurai

@Pesala said in Cannot Add feeds from YouTube Channels:

I still have no Feeds icons on YouTube, even after refreshing the page

It's because YouTube changed the structure of a channel's URL.
Pages with URL like youtube.com/@channelname have no Feeds icon.

But there is a workaround. Go to (for example) youtube.com/@channelname and select tab “About channel”, press share button and select “Copy channel ID” in the context menu.
Then in the address bar, type youtube.com/channel/yourchannelID and press Enter.

This trick will open the same channel, but with oldschool URL structure, and you will see the Feed icon.

BUT! You need to do this operation manually for each channel, that you want to subscribe to.

Four month ago I've submitted bugreport about Feed icons (VB-95394 Can't subscribe to RSS feed at the Youtube channels). It's confirmed, but still waiting for fixing. Today I added the link to this post to my bugreport.

Pesala

@kurai Thanks. That worked for me.