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80 lines
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YouTube Posts Tab Bridge
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Returns posts from a channel's posts tab
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By channel ID
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Channel ID
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By username
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Username
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VerifiedJoseph
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YouTube Feed Expander
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Returns the latest videos from a YouTube channel
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Channel ID
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Add embed to entry
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Use embed page as entry url
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Use nocookie embed page
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Hide shorts
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phantop
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YouTube Bridge
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Returns the 10 newest videos by username/channel/playlist or search
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username
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channel id
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By custom name
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custom name
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By playlist Id
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playlist id
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Search result
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search keyword
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No maintainer
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https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
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2025-08-05 (git.master.8a8d6ab)
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Technical Analysis and Deployment Guide for High-Fidelity YouTube RSS Feeds Using RSS-BridgeI. Executive Summary: Decoupling Video Subscriptions from Platform DependenciesThe consumption of dynamic web content often relies on proprietary interfaces, which frequently results in limitations on data volume, lack of user control over refresh frequency, and undesirable advertising or tracking. RSS-Bridge, a sophisticated PHP web application, serves as a critical utility for addressing these dependencies by generating standardized web feeds (RSS or Atom) for sources that either lack them or provide insufficient functionality.1The challenge of subscribing to YouTube channels reliably and comprehensively is largely defined by the limitations of its native feed infrastructure. The default mechanism imposes a severe restriction on the number of items delivered, rendering it inadequate for users who require thorough or archived updates.3The only viable solution for the advanced technologist seeking consistency, high volume, and operational autonomy is the implementation of a self-hosted bridging technology. Self-hosting RSS-Bridge or its contemporary alternative, RSSHub, via containerization methods such as Docker, ensures operational control over refresh rates and circumvents the severe rate-limiting issues that plague public or centralized instances.5 This report concludes that a self-hosted deployment is mandatory for achieving reliable YouTube feed generation and provides the mechanism necessary to overcome the primary constraint: the hard-coded limit of 10 to 15 items imposed by the native YouTube feed structure.3II. The Current State of YouTube Feeds: Limitations and Necessity of Bridging2.1 The Official YouTube RSS Mechanism: Structure and ConstraintsThe YouTube platform does, in fact, provide a native RSS feed mechanism, utilizing specific URL structures to syndicate content. These official feeds are typically accessed by appending the unique identifier of a channel or playlist to the designated base feed URL. For instance, channel feeds follow the format https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID.7 Similarly, feeds for specific playlists rely on the playlist_id appended to the same base structure.8 This structure, while functional for basic feed consumption, is heavily reliant on the user possessing the exact technical identifiers.2.1.2 The Hard-Coded Item LimitThe primary architectural failure point of the native YouTube RSS mechanism is a hard limit placed on the feed size. Regardless of a channel’s total video count or the user’s need for historical context, the native feeds typically deliver only the ten to fifteen most recent video items.3 This restriction is confirmed across various analyses of the native feed behavior. For any user requiring comprehensive historical archiving, or even just access to videos published slightly outside that narrow recent window, this limit renders the native solution functionally useless.This architectural decision to restrict content volume directly necessitates the use of complex, third-party scraping solutions like RSS-Bridge. The core motivation for undertaking the technical effort of deploying a custom bridging service is not merely to access the feed format, but explicitly to obtain a higher volume of items than the source platform permits natively.32.2 Essential Tools for YouTube Identifier ExtractionModern YouTube channels may be identified by their legacy Channel ID (the lengthy, cryptic identifier) or by a newer Channel Handle (the human-readable name prefixed with the @ symbol, such as @name). Both identifiers are necessary for different stages of feed generation.11For advanced, automated feed generation, particularly when dealing with channel handles, the technical prerequisite remains the ability to reliably extract the definitive, static Channel ID. Command-line utilities designed for YouTube content retrieval, such as yt-dlp, are capable of reliably parsing a channel’s URL to return this crucial identifier.13 This functionality is critical beca
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docker start rss-bridge
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The --volume $(pwd)/config:/config command is critical because it ensures that customizations—such as the config.ini.php settings and the placement of specialized modules like YoutubeEmbedBridge.php—are preserved across container restarts and updates.1 After adding a custom bridge to the /config/bridges/ folder, the container must be restarted for the new module to load and become available.1For more complex deployments, the use of docker-compose simplifies volume and port management:RSS-Bridge Self-Hosting Deployment Checklist (Docker-Compose)ComponentConfiguration RequirementRationale / Data ReferencePrerequisitesDocker Engine and Docker ComposeEssential for repeatable, containerized deployment 15Base Imagerssbridge/rss-bridge:latestUtilizes the official, maintained distribution 1Configuration VolumeMap local path (e.g., /local/custom/path) to container /configAllows persistence and customization of config.ini.php and integration of custom bridges 1PortsPublish host port (e.g., 3000) to container port 80External access mechanism for web usage 15Cache ManagementSet CACHE_TIMEOUT in config.ini.phpControl the Time To Live (TTL) to manage feed refresh frequency responsibly 174.3 Configuration Tuning for Performance and Cache ManagementOnce deployed, the operational efficiency and integrity of the instance depend heavily on configuration tuning. Critically, the refresh rate of generated feeds is governed by the Time To Live (TTL) setting, which corresponds to the CACHE_TIMEOUT value within the config.ini.php file.17 If the user is self-hosting, they can lower this ttl to increase the refresh frequency of specific bridges.17It is essential to understand that RSS-Bridge utilizes an on-demand update model: the feed is only refreshed if it is actively requested by a feed reader or a direct browser request, subject to the cache duration.17 If the CACHE_TIMEOUT is set to one hour, and the feed reader requests the feed, the content served will be the cached version until that hour expires, unless the user forces a refresh. This behavior contrasts sharply with proprietary services that typically handle background fetching regardless of immediate client request.18 Proper tuning of the cache timeout is necessary to balance the desire for rapid updates against the risk of hammering the source website and triggering local rate limits.V. Overcoming Scalability and Content Fetching LimitationsAchieving high-volume content retrieval, particularly from large YouTube channels or extensive playlists, requires addressing two distinct technical bottlenecks within the RSS-Bridge architecture.5.1 Analyzing the Item Count Bottlenecks5.1.1 The Bridge Default ConstraintThe default behavior of the YouTube bridge often mirrors the restrictive constraints of the native YouTube mechanism, typically pulling a maximum of 14 or 15 videos.14 This internal constraint is often managed by a simple variable within the bridge’s source code (YoutubeBridge.php). Users attempting to pull only a slightly larger number of recent items (e.g., 20) are blocked by this programmed limit. Overcoming this requires the administrator to manually modify the bridge source file to increase the item fetching loop variable or the defined example value.145.1.2 The simple_html_dom Parsing ConstraintFor large feeds, particularly playlists exceeding approximately 90 videos, a deeper, architectural constraint often takes effect. The underlying PHP scraping library, simple_html_dom, imposes a hard memory or file size limit, typically defined by a constant such as MAX_FILE_SIZE (historically around 600,000 bytes).14 When YouTube returns a large HTML document containing hundreds of video entries, the scraper halts upon hitting this internal size threshold, leading to an incomplete or failed feed generation.To resolve this critical scalability barrier, the administrator must access the simple_html_dom.php library file and manually increase the MAX_FILE_SIZE constant to a higher value (e.g., 900,000 bytes or more).14 This is a deep technical fix necessary to allow the PHP environmen
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