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FYI: YouTube provides RSS feed for every channel. The URL is as follows: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID And without downlo

by voytec 1y ago

FYI: YouTube provides RSS feed for every channel. The URL is as follows: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID And without downloading with yt-dlp, videos can be watched from youtube-nocookie.com in full-window mode (no distractions) under: https://cinemaphile.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID

entropie 1y ago
You can use the wonderful mpv player to view videos directly from a yt-url (yt-dlp backend).
avipars 1y ago
i made a tool to extract the rss feed from a channel too! https://shorts.aviparshan.com/rss-feed https://shorts.aviparshan.com/rss-feed
eddyg 1y ago
The excellent “Play”⁽¹⁾ app (available for iOS, macOS, Apple TV and Vision Pro) can also use these feeds, plus give you the ability to conveniently save other videos to “watch later”. Highly recommended! ⁽¹⁾ https://marcosatanaka.com/ https://marcosatanaka.com/
- grobibi 1y ago
  In addition to the main purchase price, this app charges 3.99/month for: -following channels -following playlists -removing shorts and many more features on top of those.
  - microflash 1y ago
    There’s open source Unwatched[1] if you want something for free. [1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unwatched-for-youtube/id6477287463 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unwatched-for-youtube/id647728...
Fiely 1y ago
In the past several months, I've moved to using an RSS Reader + Watch Later Playlist + DF Tube extension (you could use whatever to nuke parts of the UI you dislike). This has greatly improved how I use YouTube. This method allows me to be significantly more intentional with what I'm watching and how much time I'm spending. The only frustrating part is that YT shorts still come through RSS, but they are much easier to avoid in a reader than YT's UI.
- crtasm 1y ago
  You can change the first 4 characters of the channel ID to UULF to only get "Videos" (no shorts) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71192605/how-do-i-get-youtube-shorts-from-youtube-api-data-v3/76602819#76602819 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71192605/how-do-i-get-yo...
  - Fiely 1y ago
    This is very useful, thank you for sharing.
  - Arnavion 1y ago
    Doesn't seem to work for any of the ~50 URLs I tried with. Eg: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCS0N5baNlQWJCUrhCEo8WlA https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCS0N5ba... ... works but: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UULFS0N5baNlQWJCUrhCEo8WlA https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UULFS0N5... ... is 404. I'm guessing it's only a feature of playlist URLs which that SO answer is about, not RSS feed URLs.
    - crtasm 1y ago
      Sorry, my notes were lacking. Change UC to UULF and use it with this URL to get the Videos feed for a channel: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UULFS0N5baNlQWJCUrhCEo8WlA https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UULFS0N...
- tnorthcutt 1y ago
AlfredBarnes 1y ago
I used this to make a Youtube viewer "application" that lists my subscriptions most recent videos, and i can watch them when i get a chance. Just a list. no thumbnails, no click bait, no random algorithm recommendations, just stuff i want to watch.
EvanAnderson 1y ago
Pssst! Keep this on the down-low or they'll take all of this away from us. >smile< Seriously, though, w/o RSS feeds Youtube would be completely useless to me. I keep waiting for Google to kill them.
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maxglute 1y ago
Can also use google sheet + app scripts + youtube api to add new videos from channels in playlists. Sheet can trigger every few hours to keep things up to date. It does get more complicated if monitoring too many channels since execution will timeout due to sheets limit. But can make it to pickup where previously timedout. Bonus using API gets you video info so you can filter by length (shorts), keywords etc. Limitation is ~150 videos added per day due to API limits.

by voytec 1y ago

entropie 1y ago

You can use the wonderful mpv player to view videos directly from a yt-url (yt-dlp backend).

avipars 1y ago

i made a tool to extract the rss feed from a channel too! https://shorts.aviparshan.com/rss-feed https://shorts.aviparshan.com/rss-feed

eddyg 1y ago

The excellent “Play”⁽¹⁾ app (available for iOS, macOS, Apple TV and Vision Pro) can also use these feeds, plus give you the ability to conveniently save other videos to “watch later”. Highly recommended! ⁽¹⁾ https://marcosatanaka.com/ https://marcosatanaka.com/

grobibi 1y ago
In addition to the main purchase price, this app charges 3.99/month for: -following channels -following playlists -removing shorts and many more features on top of those.
- microflash 1y ago
  There’s open source Unwatched[1] if you want something for free. [1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unwatched-for-youtube/id6477287463 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unwatched-for-youtube/id647728...

Fiely 1y ago

In the past several months, I've moved to using an RSS Reader + Watch Later Playlist + DF Tube extension (you could use whatever to nuke parts of the UI you dislike). This has greatly improved how I use YouTube. This method allows me to be significantly more intentional with what I'm watching and how much time I'm spending. The only frustrating part is that YT shorts still come through RSS, but they are much easier to avoid in a reader than YT's UI.

crtasm 1y ago
You can change the first 4 characters of the channel ID to UULF to only get "Videos" (no shorts) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71192605/how-do-i-get-youtube-shorts-from-youtube-api-data-v3/76602819#76602819 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71192605/how-do-i-get-yo...
- Fiely 1y ago
  This is very useful, thank you for sharing.
- Arnavion 1y ago
  Doesn't seem to work for any of the ~50 URLs I tried with. Eg: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCS0N5baNlQWJCUrhCEo8WlA https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCS0N5ba... ... works but: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UULFS0N5baNlQWJCUrhCEo8WlA https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UULFS0N5... ... is 404. I'm guessing it's only a feature of playlist URLs which that SO answer is about, not RSS feed URLs.
  - crtasm 1y ago
    Sorry, my notes were lacking. Change UC to UULF and use it with this URL to get the Videos feed for a channel: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UULFS0N5baNlQWJCUrhCEo8WlA https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UULFS0N...
tnorthcutt 1y ago

AlfredBarnes 1y ago

I used this to make a Youtube viewer "application" that lists my subscriptions most recent videos, and i can watch them when i get a chance. Just a list. no thumbnails, no click bait, no random algorithm recommendations, just stuff i want to watch.

EvanAnderson 1y ago

Pssst! Keep this on the down-low or they'll take all of this away from us. >smile< Seriously, though, w/o RSS feeds Youtube would be completely useless to me. I keep waiting for Google to kill them.

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maxglute 1y ago

Can also use google sheet + app scripts + youtube api to add new videos from channels in playlists. Sheet can trigger every few hours to keep things up to date. It does get more complicated if monitoring too many channels since execution will timeout due to sheets limit. But can make it to pickup where previously timedout. Bonus using API gets you video info so you can filter by length (shorts), keywords etc. Limitation is ~150 videos added per day due to API limits.