{"id":27883,"date":"2020-01-16T20:34:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T01:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27883"},"modified":"2020-04-20T16:51:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T20:51:05","slug":"youtube-rss-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/16\/youtube-rss-feeds\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube RSS Feeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eggfreckles.net\/2020\/01\/03\/youtube-rss\/\">Thomas Brand<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eggfreckles.net\/2020\/01\/03\/youtube-rss\/\"><p>In 2020 I am watching less stupid on YouTube by skipping the algorithm. Instead of letting the YouTube decide which videos it wants to show me, I am watching only the videos I want to see by subscribing to my favorite content creators via RSS.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[Append] the Channel ID to the end of this URL <tt>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/feeds\/videos.xml?channel_id=<\/tt><\/p>\n<p>The combined URL + Channel ID is the Feed URL of that YouTube channel, and can be added to my feed reader.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Too bad there&rsquo;s no way to do this <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/17\/twitter-abolishes-native-mac-client\/\">for Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/subscribing-to-youtube-channels-with-rss\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/subscribing-to-youtube-channels-with-rss\/\">\n<p>YouTube isn&rsquo;t the only website that buries its RSS feeds in this manner. I don&rsquo;t know that it&rsquo;s deliberate &mdash; in the sense that they&rsquo;re trying to discourage the use of RSS. I think it might be a result of product teams convincing themselves that RSS is something used only by the technically-proficient, so it&rsquo;s put in a place where that group can find it. The trouble is that <em>only<\/em> the technically-proficient will end up using it, so it&rsquo;s cyclical.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Why not just put it in a <code>&#60;link&#62;<\/code> tag?<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/08\/no-engagement-algorithms\/\">No Engagement Algorithms<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"youtube-rss-feeds-update-2020-04-20\">Update (2020-04-20): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vhgalvao\/status\/1217987763351539717\">V&iacute;tor Galv&atilde;o<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vhgalvao\/status\/1217987763351539717\">\n<p>In several feed readers (e.g. Reeder) you don&rsquo;t need to figure out the feed yourself: paste the channels&rsquo;s URL and it&rsquo;ll auto-detect the feed<\/p>\n<p>If you want the feed for a specific youtube playlist, use <code>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/feeds\/videos.xml?playlist_id=<\/code><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It works in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/quartzcity\/status\/1218040695702704128\">News Explorer<\/a>, too.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Brand: In 2020 I am watching less stupid on YouTube by skipping the algorithm. Instead of letting the YouTube decide which videos it wants to show me, I am watching only the videos I want to see by subscribing to my favorite content creators via RSS. 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