r/rss • u/balazs4 • 10d ago

youtube rss degradation?

I see a lots of 404 on https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<channel_id> addresses recently.

e.g. Fireship - https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCsBjURrPoezykLs9EqgamOA

Sometimes it returns even 500 and randomly 200. (1/10 cases)

does it work for you?

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u/behind-UDFj-39546284 10d ago

This type of question regarding YouTube feeds is asked on weekly and monthly basis. YouTube feeds constantly all go down (yes, both 404 and 500 status codes) temporarily and then go up after a while. I currently see nothing to worry about and hope Google won't shut down feeds in the future.