[Bug] YouTube routes return 503 - LockupView format incompatibility in youtubei.ts #22661

Routes

/youtube/user/:username/:routeParams?
/youtube/channel/:id/:routeParams?

Full routes

/youtube/user/@JFlaMusic
/youtube/user/@bellafinance
/youtube/channel/UCDwDMPOZfxVV0x_dz0eQ8KQ

Related documentation

https://docs.rsshub.app/routes/social-media#youtube-channel-with-username

What is expected?

YouTube user and channel routes should return valid RSS feeds containing video items when using the youtubei.js fallback (without YOUTUBE_KEY).

What is actually happening?

All YouTube user/channel routes return HTTP 503 with error: "this route is empty".

Root Cause: YouTube's internal API now returns LockupView objects from channel.getVideos() instead of Video/GridVideo. The code at lib/routes/youtube/api/youtubei.ts filters with .filter((video) => 'video_id' in video), which filters out all videos because LockupView uses content_id instead.

Deployment information

Self-hosted

Deployment information (for self-hosted)

OS: Ubuntu 24.04 (Alibaba Cloud HK ACK), Node: v24.18.0, Docker: diygod/rsshub:latest (commit 6d77bd8, 2026-07-09), youtubei.js: 17.2.0

Additional info

# Verified from inside the running container:
$ node -e "
const { Innertube } = require(youtubei.js);
(async () => {
  const yt = await Innertube.create();
  const ch = await yt.getChannel(UClkRzsdvg7_RKVhwDwiDZOA);
  const vids = await ch.getVideos();
  console.log(type:, vids.videos[0]?.type);           // LockupView
  console.log(content_id:, vids.videos[0]?.content_id); // iFDpCiaaY2Q
  console.log(video_id:, vids.videos[0]?.video_id);     // undefined
})();
"
type: LockupView
content_id: iFDpCiaaY2Q
video_id: undefined

Related closed issues: #22166, #21961 (both auto-closed without fix)

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