mardi 14 juillet 2015

Grab RSS Feed Info for YouTube Channels

With the recent API update (April 2015), YouTube broke or made it difficult to sync these channels in RSS readers (like Feedly and gPodder).

I turns out it is quite easy to collect this info:

1. From YouTube, subscribe to a collection of Channels. In the screenshot below, I have subscribed to a bunch of "Google" channels.

2. From YouTube, click on "Manage Subscriptions", then click "Export Subscriptions"

3. The resulting XML file is mis-formatted and needs a slight adjustment to permit import to Feedly and gPodder. In the 2nd screenshot, simply remove the leading dash ("-") character from the XML lines - highlighted below. Save the file with an OPML extension (i.e., sample.opml).

4. From Feedly or gPodder, simply import the OPML just created. The current standard only provides the 15 most current entries for each channel.

5. Alternatively, you can simple COPY the individual URLs one-by-one and PASTE into your RSS Reader.

YouTube - Manage Subscriptions



Exported XML File:



Result - Using pushCast, I am able to push these YouTube videos to my TiVo hands free. As new videos arrive on these channels, they download and get pushed automatically.

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