tech.scraping.youtube.rss.feeds

Created Wednesday 24 September 2025


Youtube channels have rss feeds.


How to get them:

Right click page > view page source > contrl + f for something that looks like https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCHkYOD-3fZbuGhwsADBd9ZQ [1]


Example:

Downloading all new videos from a channel via rss.
curl https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCJ46YTYBQVXsfsp8-HryoUA | grep alternate | cut -d '"' -f 4 | grep watch | xargs bash ~/yt-utilities/yt-dlp.sh -f worst


References

  1. https://chuck.is/yt-rss/


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