# Discourse-rss-polling: polling YouTube playlist feed

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-rss-polling-polling-youtube-playlist-feed/164301
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** rss
**Created:** [September 17, 2020, 3:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-rss-polling-polling-youtube-playlist-feed/164301 "2020-09-17T03:34:18Z")
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### Author: ![k.ohlhus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/k.ohlhus/32/185024_2.png) [@k.ohlhus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/k.ohlhus)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2020, 3:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-rss-polling-polling-youtube-playlist-feed/164301/1 "2020-09-17T03:34:18Z")

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Thank you for the [discourse-rss-polling](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-rss-polling) plugin. I use it successfully for two blogs. Now I want to add a YouTube feed [Octave Tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=PLCq1Hx5o5Rk0UH6Bnxx7OednyhVPOEgyj) to this Discourse forum [https://octave.discourse.group](https://octave.discourse.group).

There seems to be a general problem with “Ruby RSS” and “Media RSS extensions” as described here

> [@Wellfed plugin - YouTube RSS feed not working](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wellfed-plugin-youtube-rss-feed-not-working/122564/12):
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> \<feed ... xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"\> It appears that the YouTube’s feed uses the [Media RSS extension](http://www.rssboard.org/media-rss). Both Discourse core and the Wellfed plugin relies on the [Ruby RSS module](https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/2.6.0/RSS.html) to parse feeds, but it does not support that extension. I don’t have plans to add supports for the extension, but I am open to PRs! I imagine the change will need to teach the Ruby RSS module and [DiscourseWellfed::FeedItem](https://github.com/xrav3nz/discourse-wellfed/blob/eb411ecb80d041460b16c0ca6093d808e833aa75/app/models/discourse_wellfed/feed_item.rb#L18) about the new elements. Could you share (or DM me): the feed URL, and your se…

I assume “discourse-rss-polling” uses the same Ruby implementation. I don’t know how “discourse-rss-polling” is related to the “wellfed-plugin”. Does this limitation exist for “discourse-rss-polling” as well?

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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2020, 12:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-rss-polling-polling-youtube-playlist-feed/164301/2 "2020-09-18T00:51:22Z")

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> [@k.ohlhus](#):
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> I assume “discourse-rss-polling” uses the same Ruby implementation. I don’t know how “discourse-rss-polling” is related to the “wellfed-plugin”. Does this limitation exist for “discourse-rss-polling” as well?

The two plugins are very similar. The discourse-rss-polling plugin uses the same code to parse the RSS feed as the wellfed plugin. I tried adding the RSS feed that you linked to to my site’s RSS settings. It is not pulling in the feed on my site. I’m not sure if this is something that can be fixed.

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### Author: ![k.ohlhus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/k.ohlhus/32/185024_2.png) [@k.ohlhus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/k.ohlhus)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-rss-polling-polling-youtube-playlist-feed/164301/3 "2020-09-19T17:21:08Z")

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Thank you @simon for looking at this 🙂

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-rss-polling-polling-youtube-playlist-feed/164301/4 "2020-10-19T17:32:43Z")

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