"""Free per-channel RSS feed reader (no API quota). Returns the channel's most recent ~15 uploads as lightweight stubs for fast fresh-video detection.""" from datetime import datetime, timezone import feedparser import httpx RSS_URL = "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={channel_id}" def fetch_channel_feed(channel_id: str) -> list[dict]: url = RSS_URL.format(channel_id=channel_id) try: resp = httpx.get(url, timeout=20.0, headers={"User-Agent": "Subfeed/1.0"}) except httpx.HTTPError: return [] if resp.status_code != 200: return [] parsed = feedparser.parse(resp.content) out: list[dict] = [] for entry in parsed.entries: video_id = entry.get("yt_videoid") if not video_id: continue published = None if entry.get("published_parsed"): published = datetime(*entry.published_parsed[:6], tzinfo=timezone.utc) thumbnail = None media = entry.get("media_thumbnail") or [] if media: thumbnail = media[0].get("url") out.append( { "id": video_id, "channel_id": channel_id, "title": entry.get("title"), "published_at": published, "thumbnail_url": thumbnail, } ) return out