raocow: Now in a convenient Miro-shaped package!

[Sillyman]

A while ago, I added raocow's Youtube channel's RSS feed to the Miro guide, and I only just recently thought "You know, maybe I should post about this." If you use Miro, this can be a great way to make watching his LPs just that much easier.

So yeah, here it is.

Visit http://www.getmiro.com/ if you have no idea what I'm talking about.

raocow, apparently there's a method by which you can assume control of the Miro Guide entry (or have it removed) if you don't want me to be in charge of this minor detail.

[Thissa]

Do feeds even work with YouTube? I loved Miro and I love Opera's built in feed system but whenever I try to add a feed from YouTube I end up getting alerts for random old videos every day and only get new videos maybe 50% of the time.

YouTube's RSS is buggy as hell and I have the exact same problem with it.

Which is why I built an RSS feed for the archive - http://everything.raocow.com/recent-rss.php - the "catch" is that it doesn't embed videos (it links to episode pages which could contain multiple videos) so I'm not sure how it would work with a site like Miro, if at all. The advantage is that it aggregates videos from any host raocow uses so you're ready for a suprise Viddler out of nowhere

[Sillyman]

As far as I can tell, Youtube's RSS works well enough to make Miro see one copy of the last 25 things raocow uploaded. Of course, this may be because I got the RSS feed via Miro's video search feature from source "Youtube User".

Oh yeah, if there's ever a feed set up on this end that points to downloadable videos directly, let me know and I'll be sure to relink the Miro Guide entry.

[Sillyman]

I just threw the Youtube and Viddler RSS feeds together with RSSMix and made that the new feed.

The upside? You'll catch them surprise viddlers. Also suddenly there's a bunch of old stuff on the bottom of the feed from when raocow last used viddler.

The downside? The feed name and image you see after adding it are a lot worse, necessitating a rename so you know what in the world the feed is rather than just seeing "RSSMix.com Mix ID 469806" and a default RSS icon.

Edit: Well drat the viddler links to SWFs. Nevermind then.

[Thissa]

I figured out the weirdness with YouTube RSS: they have two different feeds.

Don't use this one, it's all glitchy:
http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/raocow/videos.rss

Use this one instead:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/use ... ow/uploads

[metaking]

There a error in the second one too.

...Episode 17 after the 22 one.

[Sillyman]

I figured out the weirdness with YouTube RSS: they have two different feeds.

Don't use this one, it's all glitchy:
http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/raocow/videos.rss

Use this one instead:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/use ... ow/uploads

I'm actually using this one: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/use ... ds?alt=rss

Which I guess is that second one you listed, just with more forced RSSitude.