YouTube + RSS >

At a glance, there are ways but they are annoying. It’s better to use an RSS reader. I’ll check that out eventually.

I thought YouTube didn’t do RSS any more, but Brad left a comment with details. They are untested.

• Exporting YouTube subscriptions as an RSS OPML file
• Exporting YouTube subscriptions as Thunderbird RSS feeds

• Exporting YouTube subscriptions as Google Reader RSS feeds

Note, Firefox can directly view the source of a link with view-source:http://example.com

To investigate ∞

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29752447/how-to-get-a-youtube-channel-rss-feed-after-2015-april-20-without-v3-api
• https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/339idg/
• https://github.com/jpverkamp/yrss
• www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=spiralofhope
• Create an OPML file for all feeds. I should already have this sort of thing done, and in a shallow archive somewhere.

• www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNELID

  • Search the source of a page for data-channel-external-id

• www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=USERNAME

  • Severely rate-limited. Either gives a blank page or does not return data.

YouTube API v3 changes ∞

Their solution is to have you create an account and subscribe with their tools. Then you can refer to an RSS feed for that user’s subscriptions.

• Certain older YouTube apps will no longer be supported after April 2015

• Use RSS with YouTube

Old notes ∞

For a user — (gives a blank page) ∞

• www.youtube.com/rss/user/USER_ID/videos.rss

For a user, alternate — “No longer available” ∞

• gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/USER_ID/uploads (Includes images)

  • Their RSS feed (videos list) has to be public for this to work.

• gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/USER_ID/uploads (Without images)

For a playlist — “No longer available” ∞

• http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/PLAYLIST_ID

For a keyword search — “No longer available” ∞

gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?orderby=updated&vq=KEYWORD