I see people are doing scripts or other things to remove shorts from their feeds...

Cieric · 2026-05-06T14:53:03 1778079183

I actually do this whenever I add a youtube channel, but some shorts still sneak through. Just as a warning to whoever tries it themselves.

jraph · 2026-05-06T06:49:04 1778050144

Thanks, I guess I can get rid of my cron task that marks shorts as read in Nextcloud News. How did you find out?

dawidpotocki · 2026-05-06T07:01:39 1778050899

I was annoyed one day and was looking online around for some solutions.

You can find a bit more information here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71192605/how-do-i-get-yo...

jraph · 2026-05-06T08:30:20 1778056220

Thanks!

From your link:

> However, this pattern was found by me by acquiring all playlists from "UUAA" to "UUZZ" and is not officially announced by YouTube.

Okay, this was reverse engineered and there's no promise from Google on that :-)

I wonder how they use these feeds if that's only internal.

dspillett · 2026-05-06T10:38:45 1778063925

> I wonder how they use these feeds if that's only internal.

Perhaps they don't, it could be that the interface was written to a more flexible spec to allow for ongoing changes, and close to release they decided which features would be officially supported. In that case the method being used here is either deliberately kept around for potential future use, or is a bit of their tech debt.

It may also be something that is internally supported still because it is used in legacy apps that are still out there (some smart TVs have ancient apps and no upgrade path) but they don't want it used by new code as it will eventuality be removed.

In any of those cases, there is no guarantee it'll still be there tomorrow.

account42 · 2026-05-06T14:36:08 1778078168

Then again, supported APIs from Google have exactly the same guarantees.

dspillett · 2026-05-06T23:23:03 1778109783

Fair point. TBH from Google I might trust a now-unofficial (or always-was-unofficial) API kept alive by some big legacy contract a little more than an actively published & encouraged one, unless the latter is also similarly protected!

BagelsOverBread · 2026-05-06T15:23:53 1778081033

(a little bit of self-promo but) If anyone is looking for an RSS reader that splits out shorts from videos automatically, I made my open source reader Serial in part for exactly this

https://serial.tube/

bthallplz · 2026-05-06T21:03:57 1778101437

Any idea if there's a way to get the Shorts-only feed?

nickff · 2026-05-06T21:31:15 1778103075

Looks like UUSH may be what you're looking for, according to: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19795987/youtube-channel...

I have not verified this.

miguno · 2026-05-08T04:48:04 1778215684

Thank you!