It’s an open secret that you can follow YouTube channels through RSS, it’s also something I’ve covered on this blog before. What I wasn’t aware of until recently was how difficult it could be to find the RSS feed for a YouTube channel. I mistakenly thought any RSS service could discover the feed URL from a YouTube channel, but after chatting with Andreas (82Mhz) on Mastodon we discovered this wasn’t the case.
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After recently discovering Untappd’s RSS feed, I set out to find if AniList had the same hidden feature so I could ingest activity logs to the homepage of pesky.moe. After much searching I found that this wasn’t the case, but AniList did have a an open GraphQL API! I was able to use this to get my user’s activity and pass them along when generating my homepage.
This wasn’t enough. I have the urge to RSS all the things!
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As a long-time user of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to consume media, I thought I’d write a short post about it. The first specification was released on 15 March 1999, so it did celebrate its 25th birthday yesterday after all. Subscribing to RSS feeds allows you to receive updates on new posts to a website, it’s used by news aggregators to get you articles from different sources, and most famously used to deliver the latest podcast episodes to your app of choice.
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