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Re:RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible by 688e7ad06d59e95 on Friday August 21, 2020 @01:41PM (#24237109)
>There are too many unexplained steps, and the benefits are unclear.

You are 100% correct with this. But not only that is the problem. There are too many sites that don't offer obvious RSS feeds. Like YouTube. I don't have a google account, but I still want to follow some channels. What would be the best way? Right RSS, but YouTube doesn't offer that really obviously. So here is how you follow a youtube channel with RSS:

1) Klick on a YouTube Video from a channel you want to follow

2) From there click on the youtube channel (Doesn't work if you directly click on the channel from the serach)

3) Then you have the url https://www.youtube.com/channel/<channel-ID-here> (for example colinfurze's channel ID would be UCp68_FLety0O-n9QU6phsgw

4) Now the last thing left is combine that channel ID with the following: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<channel... and add it to your RSS feed! (For example the full colinfurze url would be: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCp68_FL... ) Easy, isn't it? :)

Re:RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible by strajk on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:49PM (#24238247)
My favourite rss reader NewsBlur (no affil, just very happy user) allows subscribing to YouTube channels just by entering its URL - no need to digging for RSS feed :)
Re:RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible by 688e7ad06d59e95 on Friday August 21, 2020 @01:45PM (#24237143)
Just checked the extension from the OP. It resovles to the same URL and works fine too. Nice thing.