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>To get an RSS feed of a single channel’s uploads, paste the channel URL into your RSS reader. How does this work? How does the feed-reader know to grab the RS
by john111 10y ago
>To get an RSS feed of a single channel’s uploads, paste the channel URL into your RSS reader.
How does this work? How does the feed-reader know to grab the RSS XML instead of the page HTML, if they have the same URL?
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- justinator 10y agoThe RSS reader just looks for the, <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="yourfeed.rss" /> tag(s) in the head of your document. So for example, my channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/leaddadaist https://www.youtube.com/user/leaddadaist Here's the tag in the source, <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCnQRp2dhO1SIp9--CSPmYpQ">
- sohkamyung 10y agoIn Firefox, there is an option to customise the toolbar by adding a '(RSS) Subscribe' button to it. This becomes active when Firefox detects that a web page has an accompanying RSS feed. Clicking on it either brings you to the RSS feed directly or give you subscription options if multiple RSS/Atom feeds are found for the web page.
- jeffkeeling 10y agoI know it's not hard to piece the rss feed together yourself, but I made a little tool so all you need to is the youtube channel/playlist url and the feed gets generated: https://jeffkeeling.github.io/youtube_rss_extractor/ https://jeffkeeling.github.io/youtube_rss_extractor/