Feeder - YouTube feeds

[Darfuria]

When trying to use a YouTube RSS feed with the feeder, I get an unspecified error - "please try again later".

An example of a YouTube RSS feed URL would be: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base...rderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile

 

[Jake Bunce]

That one doesn't work for me either. Looks like a problem with that feed. I tried it with other readers too (not just xenForo).

Other feeds work. Here is a feed I pulled from an account on youtube:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base...rderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile

 

[bogus]

DO

Other feeds work. Here is a feed I pulled from an account on youtube:

Do you get the Videos displayed in your feeds? And if how have you done it

 

[Mike]

Try the fix here: http://xenforo.com/community/thread...eports-back-uncaught-error.10830/#post-146142

Otherwise, I tried Jake's feed and it works. No videos in the feed; we don't convert them.

 

[bogus]

Hi Mike. Have you planned to get Videos embedded? http://xenforo.com/community/threads/feed-importer-include-also-media-tags.10546/

 

[EQnoble]

On that note Mike, if I was to attempt to try and make it pull the url of the video itself to be parsed through media bbcode tags, would I be trying to use thumbnailUrl as a variable in a string with an if youtube link echo media]thumbnailUrl[/media type of thing in news_feed_attached_images? I'm just looking for a logical place to start.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Try the fix here: http://xenforo.com/community/thread...eports-back-uncaught-error.10830/#post-146142

Oh I should have mentioned that I tried that fix with his feed and it didn't work.

On that note Mike, if I was to attempt to try and make it pull the url of the video itself to be parsed through media bbcode tags, would I be trying to use thumbnailUrl as a variable in a string with an if youtube link echo media]thumbnailUrl[/media type of thing in news_feed_attached_images? I'm just looking for a logical place to start.

Yes you would need to extract the video id from the content of the feed.

 

[Mike]

Oh I should have mentioned that I tried that fix with his feed and it didn't work.

His feed was only an example (you can see "username" in it). And if you look at it directly, you can see there are no entries in it, so that's why we complain about it -- though I don't get "unspecified error"; I actually get "there was a problem retrieving the feed". As you noted, a valid one (with entries) seems ok.

 

[Darfuria]

This is the URL I'm using: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/robchappers/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published

There are entries in that feed, and I get the error. However, if I just use a dummy feed, without entries, I don't get an error (did that accidentally).