[Bug]: Subscription page never loads

[ocean-haiyang]

Guidelines

• I have encountered this bug in the latest release of FreeTube.
• I have encountered this bug in the official downloads of FreeTube.
• I have searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues that are similar to the bug report I want to file, without success.
• I have searched the documentation for information that matches the description of the bug I want to file, without success.
• This issue contains only one bug.

Describe the bug

On RSS or API, it never loads.

Expected Behavior

I expect to see my subscriptions.

Issue Labels

content not loading

FreeTube Version

0.22.0 beter

Operating System Version

linux

Installation Method

Flathub

Primary API used

Local API

Last Known Working FreeTube Version (If Any)

No response

Additional Information

No response

Nightly Build

• I have encountered this bug in the latest nightly build.

[wcarss]

👋 also having this consistently in freetube 0.22.0_amd64.deb on ubuntu 22.04; about 21 subscriptions

[wcarss]

We also had this issue, which led here, and our profiles.db looked fine, but I was able to resolved our startup issue and this subscriptions-loading issue after finding and removing a malformed subscriptions-cache.db from ~/.config/FreeTube (or whever your local freetube data is stored for your OS). It was a JSON object that just stopped mid-string -- after clearing it and rebooting, freetube loaded correctly and subscriptions loaded again.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

@ocean-haiyang did you by any chance used another installation methode before using Flathub?

[ocean-haiyang]

@ocean-haiyang did you by any chance used another installation methode before using Flathub?

I also tried rpm as I’m on fedora. Same thing sadly

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Please try https://docs.freetubeapp.io/usage/importing-subscriptions/#troubleshooting-issues and report back

[ocean-haiyang]

Please try https://docs.freetubeapp.io/usage/importing-subscriptions/#troubleshooting-issues and report back

I deleted all my subscriptions then sub-ed one by one and it works fine. The way I imported them must have not been supported. They showed as sub-ed and listed on the sidebar but would not show up in subscriptions.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

@ocean-haiyang im glad you got it working. would you be willing to provide the file you tried to import? Maybe this can help us find the issue and fix it for other future users.

[ocean-haiyang]

@ocean-haiyang im glad you got it working. would you be willing to provide the file you tried to import? Maybe this can help us find the issue and fix it for other future users.

youtube.opml.xml.zip

Here you go! It was from my freshrss feed.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

@ocean-haiyang

From looking at the file it seems like this line is the culprit:

<outline text="https://m.youtube.com/@Seth.Hughes/videos" type="rss" xmlUrl="https://m.youtube.com/@Seth.Hughes/videos" htmlUrl="https://m.youtube.com/@Seth.Hughes/videos"/>

More specifically:
type="rss" xmlUrl="https://m.youtube.com/@Seth.Hughes/videos"

All other xmlUrl links in the file look more like:
xmlUrl="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCxj38S7nvhpdJD9lD1m4HGQ"

So it seemed like there that link was saved incorrectly and thats why FT couldnt parse it.

[ocean-haiyang]

Thanks! I may try this with that deleted as a test. Can’t believe you caught that