[Bug]: "Your subscribed channels does not have any videos"

[GrumbleAus]

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• I have encountered this bug in the latest release of FreeTube.
• I have encountered this bug in the official downloads of FreeTube.
• I have searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues that are similar to the bug report I want to file, without success.
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• This issue contains only one bug.

Describe the bug

I have 200 channels, use RSS feed method. Just did a subscription refresh and got the above message. Was working an hour ago. Thanks for the great software.

Expected Behavior

Shows new videos for all channels

Issue Labels

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FreeTube Version

v0.19.1 beta

Operating System Version

Windows 10 Enterprise 22H2

Installation Method

.exe

Primary API used

Local API

Last Known Working FreeTube Version (If Any)

No response

Additional Information

No response

Nightly Build

• I have encountered this bug in the latest nightly build.

[ArthurKun21]

Can confirm experiencing the same. Also got high amounts of channel

Checking the Videos/Shorts/Live tab all results the same.

Tested going to the channel directly and I can see there is videos in the videos/shorts/live tab

Created a new profile and added 1 channel(LTT) in there, I can confirm seeing videos in video/live tab, the channel got shorts when viewed from their channel but there is none in the shorts tab when viewed from the main page

maybe the bug got something to do with RSS?

Opening the Developer tools while loading it and I see Error 403

I see, it hits the limit of Youtube RSS I guess https://stackoverflow.com/a/42116087/14859274

edit: updated details

[torriem]

I switched to a proxy I run on a VPS, and was able to refresh my feeds. I'm sure eventually youtube will complain again. My ISP IP address is shared with many customers, so maybe that tripped YouTube's block. It has happened before.

[karolyi]

seemingly, all the RSS feeds are gone, as in 404.

[taewyth]

The issue likely stems from Youtube's side of things, I'm encountering it both on freetube and newpipe

[Janaue]

The RSS feed seems involved. It's over isn't it ?
if RSS feed is forced, then even profiles with 2 channels are not updated and nothing is found....

[Janaue]

what is the highest number of subscriptions that a profile can have, and still being updated without RSS ?

[Querulous]

I've also had this issue but now it works fine, I was testing rss urls in browser on mobile and desktop and I got different results
Desktop(freetube):

We're sorry...
... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.

Mobile(): 404

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New Pipe was working fine for me whole time.

[ArthurKun21]

it seems to have resolved on my end, all of the videos/shorts/live tab are loading. Just worried that it might happen again in the future

[karolyi]

I got it back as well. on newpipe, I got a notification that a couple channels couldn't be loaded, which they did after another refresh. I think YT is trying to limit the RSS feed requests.

[absidue]

Closing as the RSS feeds have been back for a while now.

[Uncorrupt3318]

I think it's back. None of the invidious APIs work, only the local one. Getting code 200 from the instances but no videos

[karolyi]

+1 could confirm, but for me it's fixed now. probably another developer-caused hiccup.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

This issue only occurs when RSS is enabled by the user or forced by the application because the profile contains >= 100 subscriptions

The bug is on YouTube's side, we can't do anything about YouTube breaking their own systems.

Hopefully it is resolved soon.

For everyone that needs to use FT right now, try the workaround.

For a quick fix create a profile with < 100 subscriptions and disable RSS under Subscription Settings

[Uncorrupt3318]

Aaaand it's back now. Sorry for the trouble. If anything, the local API works when needed

[karolyi]

I think they're trying to find ways against freetube and the likes.

The RSS feed responses are sometimes 404, sometimes 500. They're definitely playing around with the backends.

[ACR-Jeff]

I think they're trying to find ways against freetube and the likes.

The RSS feed responses are sometimes 404, sometimes 500. They're definitely playing around with the backends.

Exactly, This is why anything related to YT shouldn't be relied upon (Meaning RSS, API's, Etc). Yet what else is there.

[karolyi]

Offtopic here, but I have quite a lot of subscriptions on LBRY. It's slowly becoming my go-to platform.

[ACR-Jeff]

I might have found a temp fix, I am on Void Linux, I renamed /.config/Freetube > /.config/Freetube.bak restarted freetube, Feed works again as normal.

Update: Scrap that, I just renamed my previous config file back, Restarted Freetube and it works again as intended

[absidue]

Well yes because FreeTube defaults to not using RSS and as you have now removed your subscriptions, you are well below the 125 channel per profile limit at which FreeTube forces RSS to avoid ratelimiting.

Your "workaround" doesn't change the fact that YouTube's RSS feeds are still down.

[ACR-Jeff]

Well yes because FreeTube defaults to not using RSS and as you have now removed your subscriptions, you are well below the 125 channel per profile limit at which FreeTube forces RSS to avoid ratelimiting.

Your "workaround" doesn't change the fact that YouTube's RSS feeds are still down.

For some odd reason it didn't remove my subscriptions, Normally it would, Unsure why it didn't and that's what I was leaning towards to clean slate and add only a few subs.
I proceeded to renamed my previous config file back, Restarted Freetube and it works again as intended even with 143 subs. YT may have fixed their broken RSS feed?

[polemion]

Got it today with 34 channels.

Is there any verbosity flag, log or something to attempt to debug?

I did not find anything helpful after stracing it, only a multitude of the following:
recvmsg(47, {msg_namelen=0}, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)

But I am not certain if they are related to this, which seems benign:
(freetube:361334): dbind-WARNING **: 09:00:45.140: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /root/.cache/at-spi/bus_0.0: Permission denied

[absidue]

@polemion Are you using the local API or the Invidious API?

Is there any verbosity flag, log or something to attempt to debug?

Even if there were (which there isn't, FreeTube doesn't log to the terminal, instead you would want to open the devtools, like in a web browser), it won't help you in this case (when YouTube is saying the channel doesn't exist or Invidious is returning an internal server error, there is nothing FreeTube can log, because it doesn't get anymore details from YouTube/Invidious).

[polemion]

Oop, nice, yeah, Dev tools will be enough to debug any future instances (the issue was temporary).

Didn't know it supported it, thanks @absidue