It's Time for an RSS Revival

Re:It's Time for an RSS Revival by hobo_mark on Friday December 23, 2022 @11:51AM (#34107923)

Feeds are definitely still enabled on YouTube at

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC<xyz>

The only complicated part is finding the channel id, which is not always presented directly (sometimes you have a username, sometimes a channel "shortname", now you also have handles... even the YouTube data API itself can only resolve some of them).

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Re:It's Time for an RSS Revival by philistine on Friday December 23, 2022 @12:11PM (#34108197)

If you give a channel URL to NetNewsWire, it will figure it out for you. I definitely recommend it, it's the golden standard of RSS readers.

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Re:It's Time for an RSS Revival by Metricon on Friday December 23, 2022 @02:03PM (#34109439)

To get the YouTube channel Id: on the channel home page (you may need to reload the page or open it in private mode to avoid caching), open the developer console and enter:

ytInitialData.metadata.channelMetadataRenderer.externalId

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Re:It's Time for an RSS Revival by fab23 on Friday December 23, 2022 @03:02PM (#34109984)

I am using the RSSPreview [1] Addon in Firefox, which works for me also on Youtube. The addon brings back the nice RSS Icon in the URL Bar. You can also change to color back to orange so you can spot it easily when a site has an RSS feed.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rsspreview/

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