Request: Change "Must Be Newer Than" to Published Date for YouTube | CyberSEO Pro | CyberSEO support forum

It doesn't matter what options you have enabled in the feed settings, including "must be newer than" or anything else. Your custom PHP snippet will be executed according to the plugin's internal workflow, regardless of these settings.

All content processing (e.g. translation, rewriting, filtering, etc.) should be done inside the PHP snippet using CyberSEO Pro API functions. Therefore, the corresponding options should be disabled in the plugin settings. When communicating with the GPT Assistant, be sure to clearly state that you're looking for a solution that uses only custom PHP, without relying on preprocessing or other plugin settings. Ask it to use API functions to implement your specific use case - unfortunately you didn't mention exactly what you are trying to achieve (translation, rewriting, filtering, etc.).

Please note that the PHP snippet example I provided is just an alternative workaround. After evaluating all possible solutions to your problem, we've decided to change the behavior of the plugin itself. For YouTube feeds, the "must be newer than" filter in 12.000 will use the date of publication instead of the time of update. According to YouTube's own policy, content updates (such as thumbnail changes) don't change the video itself - so checking the updated date doesn't make sense for your use case.

harboot said

filter out shorts or only shorts - iam looking for this feature also.

Regarding YouTube shorts - there's currently no reliable way to detect or filter them via RSS. YouTube doesn't label them in the feed, and they often have no duration or metadata to distinguish them from regular videos.

However, we might consider filtering them out by default, since short videos are generally not useful for article generation or content enrichment. They typically lack titles, descriptions, and meaningful content.

If we do add such filtering, it will be done automatically - not as a separate UI option - because this feature makes sense for most use cases.

Yes, in theory you could set a filter like "post content must be at least X characters", and many shorts would be filtered out that way - simply because they usually contain very little or no text. But this method isn't reliable.

Some long-form videos may also have very little content (e.g., music videos, trailers), while some shorts may contain a full transcript or detailed description - especially if they are enhanced by AI or third-party captioning.

So while a content-length filter might reduce the number of shorts, it's not a guaranteed way to remove them. That's why there's no official "shorts only" or "exclude shorts" filter - YouTube itself doesn't disclose this information in the RSS feed.

When we add automatic short filtering in the plugin, it will be based on more consistent heuristics (such as URL path patterns or embedded player detection), not just raw content length.

The date filter works for RSS and Atom feeds, including YouTube RSS feeds - each item there has its own publication date, so filtering works as expected.

However, YouTube video search in Media Enrichment doesn't support date-based filtering. YouTube's search API doesn't expose reliable release dates in a way that can be used for filtering in this context.

There are no configuration settings for this. Now the plugin simply ignores YouTube playlists and shorts. Only videos are imported.