Summary
The video scraper logs [WARN] for 9 YouTube sources that consistently return 404. Investigation shows this is a platform-wide YouTube RSS feed outage, not stale playlist/channel IDs.
Affected sources
| Source |
URL |
| Jane Street - Signal & Threads |
playlist_id=PLCiAikFFaMJouorRXDSfS2UoKV4BfKyQm |
| Jane Street - OCaml Unboxed |
playlist_id=PLCiAikFFaMJrgFrWRKn0-1EI3gVZLQJtJ |
| Jane Street - Tech Talks |
playlist_id=PLCiAikFFaMJoWyXnJ2BWpse5HuiYibNYs |
| Emelle TV |
channel_id=UCvVVfCa7-nzSuCdMKXnNJNQ |
| FUN OCaml |
channel_id=UC3TI-fmhJ_g3_n9fHaXGZKA |
| OCaml Programming (Clarkson) |
playlist_id=PLre5AT9JnKShBOPeuiD9b-I4XROIJhkIU |
| Collège de France - Sciences du logiciel |
playlist_id=PLtimy8tnozICbD45yhB7Ha_zIBJTIK3im |
| The Vimeagen |
channel_id=UCVk4b-svNJoeytrrlOixebQ |
| OCAML Workshop at ICFP 2023 |
playlist_id=PLyrlk8Xaylp7Tq5-ZN6jkir-sYrhGi_0E |
Evidence that this is a YouTube-side issue
- The 404s are persistent across the last 5 daily scrape runs (Feb 13–17, 2026).
- Channel IDs were verified to still be valid (e.g. FUN OCaml, TheVimeagen, Jane Street all resolve via
youtube.com/@handle).
- Even unrelated, known-good channels (Google, Computerphile) return 404 on the RSS endpoint right now.
- This matches a widely reported YouTube RSS outage: Google AI Developers Forum, FreeTube#8443, RSS-Bridge#2113.
Impact
None on the scraper — errors are caught and logged as [WARN], and the scrape completes successfully. No new videos from these sources are picked up while the outage persists.
Action
No code change needed for now. This issue tracks the upstream problem. Once YouTube restores the RSS feed endpoint, the scraper should resume working without changes.
Summary
The video scraper logs
[WARN]for 9 YouTube sources that consistently return 404. Investigation shows this is a platform-wide YouTube RSS feed outage, not stale playlist/channel IDs.Affected sources
playlist_id=PLCiAikFFaMJouorRXDSfS2UoKV4BfKyQmplaylist_id=PLCiAikFFaMJrgFrWRKn0-1EI3gVZLQJtJplaylist_id=PLCiAikFFaMJoWyXnJ2BWpse5HuiYibNYschannel_id=UCvVVfCa7-nzSuCdMKXnNJNQchannel_id=UC3TI-fmhJ_g3_n9fHaXGZKAplaylist_id=PLre5AT9JnKShBOPeuiD9b-I4XROIJhkIUplaylist_id=PLtimy8tnozICbD45yhB7Ha_zIBJTIK3imchannel_id=UCVk4b-svNJoeytrrlOixebQplaylist_id=PLyrlk8Xaylp7Tq5-ZN6jkir-sYrhGi_0EEvidence that this is a YouTube-side issue
youtube.com/@handle).Impact
None on the scraper — errors are caught and logged as
[WARN], and the scrape completes successfully. No new videos from these sources are picked up while the outage persists.Action
No code change needed for now. This issue tracks the upstream problem. Once YouTube restores the RSS feed endpoint, the scraper should resume working without changes.