# 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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**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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