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You can actually get RSS feeds for YouTube: emacs users like myself who consume YouTube via elfeed have been doing it like so: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/vi

You can actually get RSS feeds for YouTube: emacs users like myself who consume YouTube via elfeed have been doing it like so: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=<THE_ID> https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=<THE_ID... Or https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<THE_ID> https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<THE_ID> More info here: https://joshrollinswrites.com/help-desk-head-desk/20200611/ https://joshrollinswrites.com/help-desk-head-desk/20200611/ It really helps to break away from the addictive properties of YouTube's "Up Next" algorithm

bscphil 6y ago
Wow... I wrote my own WebSub receiver and put it on an always-on server to get around the fact that I assumed YouTube doesn't have RSS from the fact that I couldn't find this information anywhere.
- s0l1dsnak3123 6y ago
  You can get an XML dump of all your subscribed channels which contains these links: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager (scroll to the bottom)
- hombre_fatal 6y ago
  It's crazy how rare it's become to see an RSS link on websites that actually have it if you add /feed or /feed.xml to the url. I have to wonder how much more dead RSS would be if Wordpress (like, 90% of blogs/news sites) didn't create a /feed by default.
  - vezycash 6y ago
    Check this out: Puts an RSS/Atom subscribe button back in URL bar. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/ Helps discover rss feeds for sites.
    - hombre_fatal 6y ago
      That is great, thanks. Got back into RSS lately and doing the ol "look for RSS link in footer and then guess at /feed" rigmarole every time gets old fast. The screenshot of the RSS icon in the url bar brings back a memory I don't know if I had. Didn't Firefox used to do this by default or am I misremembering?
zouhair 6y ago
The playlist feed will only show the first 15 videos.
- s0l1dsnak3123 6y ago
  I haven't used the playlist one, I just knew it existed

bscphil 6y ago

Wow... I wrote my own WebSub receiver and put it on an always-on server to get around the fact that I assumed YouTube doesn't have RSS from the fact that I couldn't find this information anywhere.

s0l1dsnak3123 6y ago
You can get an XML dump of all your subscribed channels which contains these links: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager (scroll to the bottom)
hombre_fatal 6y ago
It's crazy how rare it's become to see an RSS link on websites that actually have it if you add /feed or /feed.xml to the url. I have to wonder how much more dead RSS would be if Wordpress (like, 90% of blogs/news sites) didn't create a /feed by default.
- vezycash 6y ago
  Check this out: Puts an RSS/Atom subscribe button back in URL bar. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/ Helps discover rss feeds for sites.
  - hombre_fatal 6y ago
    That is great, thanks. Got back into RSS lately and doing the ol "look for RSS link in footer and then guess at /feed" rigmarole every time gets old fast. The screenshot of the RSS icon in the url bar brings back a memory I don't know if I had. Didn't Firefox used to do this by default or am I misremembering?

zouhair 6y ago

The playlist feed will only show the first 15 videos.

s0l1dsnak3123 6y ago
I haven't used the playlist one, I just knew it existed