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RSS Feed Sources

YouTube Channel Videos

Section titled YouTube Channel Videos

General

Section titled General

This comment, the manually portion: How to find channel RSS feed on YouTube? - Web Applications Stack Exchange

  1. Open the desired YouTube channel page.
  2. Open the view-source of that page (one of the following):
    • Ctrl+U.
    • Right click —> View page source.
    • Add view-source: to the beginning of the url in the address bar.
  3. Search for the term externalId
  4. Right after it, there will be a random code (the channel id) in the form of: UCoookXUzPciGrEZEXmh4Jjg
  5. Add the code you found as a suffix to https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id= and now that’s your RSS feed for that channel.

NOTE: The selection after the Ctrl+F might be a little rough (slow, as the page source is large). You can select a large range including the selected Ctrl+F to fish out the channel id manually. Alternatively, paste the source into a code editor or write a script to extract it.

Exclude YouTube shorts

Section titled Exclude YouTube shorts

To only subscribe to a channel’s videos, follow the steps above, but replace the channel_id=UC in the feed URL with playlist_id=UULF. Source.

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC-bAyLcSDpV4vS0AbxxknTw
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UULF-bAyLcSDpV4vS0AbxxknTw

GitHub Repo Releases

Section titled GitHub Repo Releases