Hi everyone, I’ve been experiencing intermittent 404 errors when fetching YouTube channel RSS feeds over the past week. The issue seems to follow a specific pattern. Problem: YouTube RSS feed endpoint returns 404 errors for channels that are clearly active and have public videos. Endpoint: https…

Got the exact same issue! Example: RSS-Feed: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCQxux0Tuz8srG6sE-dujDHw Feed HTTP/Fetch fail (try 1/3): code=404 err= <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang=en> <meta charset=utf-8> <meta name=viewport content="initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=dev…

[Bildschirmfoto 2025-12-28 um 07.49.31] This seem to be a major issue! Engineers need to investigate urgent on priority!

Now, the issue has been resolved, and it is working as expected. You can try clearing the cache or try on another browser if you still experience issues.

Actually with the user agent parameters it happened again in the morning during 9-12 time period. It’s working now but between 9-12 it returns 404. How do you know the issue has been resolved @innovatix ? Can you share any detailed information or your test setup? Thanks.

Hi @Goktug_Yurt , and everyone . The time is 6:18 UTC, but now also endpoint is returning 404 error. Is there any cheap or free api alternatives for this ??

the solution is to use YouTube Data API. But the API’s daily limit is very low. So I submitted for a daily limit increase and waiting for Google Team’s approval (or disapproval). @Nanta_gopal_C There is also PubSubHubbub but I don’t know if it works for my system. By the way I am not getting 404 f…

Hi all, Are you still facing this issue? If yes, please provide more details for reproducing the same. Thanks!

Hi @Srikanta_K_N I’m not facing this problem for about a week. During this time I applied for a quota increase for YouTube Data API. Now I have both solutions working just fine =) But I’m still analyzing all the outputs if the problem will occur again one day since I couldn’t understand the reason…

Hello again @Srikanta_K_N This morning it started doing this 404 error again. The same time window, the RSS gives 404 error.

Hi everyone, it happened again this morning (it is happening right now actually, 07:30 UTC). I tried with multiple channels and same results. [image] To reproduce: Visit https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCGceY6q-23t1eZul3KX8-PQ

YouTube RSS feed endpoint returns 404 errors

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saschabrockel January 23, 2026, 1:58pm 18

I always thought it was about my system and my fault, and now I found this thread. I can confirm the problems. I only try to reach the RSS feed for my own channel every hour, automated with n8n:

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