Add links for genres

[dimqua]

There are links to channels for each of YouTube "genres" or categories in the descriptions of each video, but they don't work with Invidious, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYfdidRxbB8Qhf0Nx7ioOYw

https://www.invidio.us/channel/UCYfdidRxbB8Qhf0Nx7ioOYw

[omarroth]

I didn't realize those linked to YouTube channels, thank you! Should be a pretty quick fix.

[omarroth]

Looks like the pages they link to will be empty until #116 is merged. Genre pages don't have any videos of their own, and instead have playlists "Top Stories", "Live Now", etc.

I'm also curious if there is a list of these YouTube channels anywhere? The best I can find is https://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat?hl=en which provides a list but doesn't provide a channel link.

[dimqua]

There are non-complete lists:

https://www.youtube.com/feed/guide_builder
https://www.youtube.com/movies

[omarroth]

Added with 53732cd, although it may take a bit for videos to update to include the new URL.

[dimqua]

But I don't see any videos, for example https://www.invidio.us/channel/UCiDF_uaU1V00dAc8ddKvNxA

[omarroth]

Right. Genre channels are an edge case, as they link to videos but don't have any themselves.

[omarroth]

Added some extra handling for genre channels with 5632e58. For some reason YouTube will happily provide URLs to non-existent channels. For example, http://invidio.us/watch?v=lRfdMiURV4s provides an invalid URL for Education - Topic. RSS feeds for genre channels also don't work (on YouTube at least, Invidious seems to be able to handle them). The only other problem I found was with the News - Topic channel, because it only links to livestreams, so the /videos tab is empty.

That's about all I have to mention, you can subscribe properly, view RSS feed, everything you would be able to on a normal channel. Feel free to open a new issue for genre channels if some of them don't work.