[ Youtube Sidebar Widget ] Modding . No items on feed?

Hello,

I’m trying to create a shortcode with the Youtube Sidebar Widget, but for some reason simplexml_load_string() returns true, but there are no videos.

this is the url: `
$ident = esc_attr($atts[‘ident’]);
$playlist_url = “https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/$ident?v=2”;`

and then the rest:
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What’s going on here? I see no error.