RSS links within the crystall ball window

gesumin

It would be great if kagi gave you the RSS link to e.g. youtube channels in the crystal ball window.

E.g. for https://www.youtube.com/channel/THE_CHANNEL_ID_HERE

The RSS link would look like this: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=THE_CHANNEL_ID_HERE

I image it would be unrealistic to crawl other sites for RSS links as well, wouldn't it.

Credit to the idea goes to the discord post of endo: https://discord.com/channels/849884108750061568/849884109240270890/940483404137381940

Vlad

gesumin What if the video url does nt have channel id (direct link to video)? RSS for all sites or just youtube? How would we discover an rss link for a site? and are you ready to wait the extra time to show the popup needed to load the page and perform discovery?

gesumin

Vlad

I'd be ready to wait. You could also do it by implementing a tiny "load RSS link" button in the crystal window that would only do discovery / load the link upon click and not in general (RSS is more of a niche feature now sadly).

If the URL of a youtube channel or video doesn't have the channel ID, as a user I would get the ID by opening the page -> Right Click -> View Page Source -> Ctrl + F: “ChannelID”, it shows up like this:

It would be great if it were possible for other sites as well. As for them, the RSS link is often linked in the page source like this

But I don't know how feasible it would be for you to process pages for RSS links in addition to serving search results, even if it's on demand only.

Vlad

gesumin RSS is probably used by <5% of people, it seems like a lot of pain for little gain.

Wrongdoer0776

I believe the more standard way to get RSS feed for a webpage (website?) is through the metadata on the <head> section. For example, the current page has three RSS feeds:

This is what RSS readers use to discover the feed urls. It works for youtube as well. So it should be possible to implement mechanically

However, I'm not saying this feature SHOULD be added into Kagi. For me, I rarely use search engine to find RSS feeds. More often I just paste the page url to the RSS reader and have it figure out what to do.

Vlad

Wrongdoer0776 Thanks that is doable actually.