TeamNewPipe
Shorts added to "What's New"
Checklist
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Feature description
When subscribing to a channel, the normal videos will be visible in the "What's New"-flow, but the shorts are missing. Please also add the shorts to the "What's New"-flow.
Why do you want this feature?
Right now I am missing shorts I would have wanted to watch, because they are not in the flow
Additional information
No response
This would be amazing! There are a few rare channels where shorts are actually good, and having them in the subscription feed is one of the last missing features to make a YouTube account completely obsolete (for a viewer).
But since it’s not implemented yet, I wrote a separate shorts feed as a web app that doesn’t store your subscriptions but simply accepts a comma-separated list of channel IDs as a query parameter, for example:
https://natewind.github.io/shorts/?channels=UCupQd0e1leK4-Mj1wSfnkoQ,UCbKWv2x9t6u8yZoB3KcPtnw,UCvGfUjV0yRUmczK15_SMcWA
Just fill in your subscriptions and bookmark it.
It uses channel RSS feeds, similarly to the fast mode in NewPipe, but requests have to go through a rate-limited Allow-Origin proxy due to GitHub Pages security shenanigans, so it’s quite slow, especially if there are a lot of channels. And sometimes requests fail inexplicably, so you may have to wait for retries to finish. Nevetheless, it works.
