Youtube Through RSS

Following Youtube channels through RSS is a great quality-of-life improvement. I don’t expect this "feature" to last particularly long given where Google is taking the site, but it works for now.

Getting a feed for a channel

This isn’t the easiest thing. There are two methods I am aware of.

The first way I know of is to:

  1. go to the channel you want to follow
  2. inspect page source
  3. search for “RSS”
    4. a screenshot of the RSS link in the page source of a Youtube channel
  4. copy the URL containing the channel ID
  5. add this to your feed reader

The second makes things a bit easier, but it’s also somewhat undesirable:

  1. sign up for a feed reader (like feedly)
  2. follow the Youtube channels you want to follow
  3. export the feeds
  4. import them to your feed reader

I suppose this second method is useful if you want to import a lot of Youtube feeds at once.

The consumption experience is better if you can get a feed reader that can display webpages. I use Thunderbird with uBlock, and this is a good enough way for me to follow Youtube.

This article was written on 09/08/2023. If you have any thoughts, feel free to send me an email with them. Have a nice day!