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
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