[YouTubeFeedExpanderBridge] Add bridge

[Phantop]

Adds a new YouTube bridge based on feed expander. The current one works fine, however is rather complex due to using the YouTube private API to obtain most data. This bridge uses feed expander over the official feeds, which function fine, to add some functionality not in that existing bridge:

• Properly obtains channel icons as feed icon
• Includes maxres thumbnail in enclosures
• Provides options to include embed iframe, use embed as entry url, and use nocookie version for those

[dvikan]

I like that it's shorter/lesser code. Supports only channel id.

but but do we really want to have two kinds of youtube bridges? users gonna get confused?

[github-actions]

Pull request artifacts

Bridge	Context	Status
YouTubeFeedExpander	1 untitled (pr)	✔️

last change: Thursday 2025-01-30 00:47:30

[Phantop]

Forgot to comment—I do think this bridge has its uses, with the functionality I added being useful stuff that is commonly added in feeds for alt YouTube frontends.

I'm proposing this as an alt bridge rather than replacing the existing one because that one has been around for a while and takes a very different approach. I don't want to break any existing feeds. It's up to you what the best way to include this would be.

[dvikan]

ok cool. adding it as an alternative. we will see how it goes. maybe improve bridge explanation that this is an alternative to the main

[dvikan]

Also interesting to note that the JsonFormat actually includes the yt module in its _rssbridge key:

https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/?action=display&bridge=YouTubeFeedExpanderBridge&channel=UCzORJV8l3FWY4cFO8ot-F2w&embed=on&format=Json

Only JsonFormat does this (adding extra meta data)

[dvikan]

Also unfortunately that the HtmlFormat actually htmlencodes the <iframe>. We could change that