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

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

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.