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		jstanley 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has... I tried to make a custom Subscriptions view for YouTube but they kept blocking me for trying to scrape hundreds of RSS feeds.

pbalau 19 days ago [–]

Maybe because their robots.txt disallows that?

https://www.youtube.com/robots.txt

    User-agent: *
    ...
    Disallow: /feeds/videos.xml
    ...

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