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Comment by s0l1dsnak3123 | Hacker News Reader

You can actually get RSS feeds for YouTube: emacs users like myself who consume YouTube via elfeed have been doing it like so:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=<THE_ID...

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<THE_ID>

More info here: https://joshrollinswrites.com/help-desk-head-desk/20200611/

It really helps to break away from the addictive properties of YouTube's "Up Next" algorithm

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Wow... I wrote my own WebSub receiver and put it on an always-on server to get around the fact that I assumed YouTube doesn't have RSS from the fact that I couldn't find this information anywhere.

You can get an XML dump of all your subscribed channels which contains these links: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager (scroll to the bottom)

It's crazy how rare it's become to see an RSS link on websites that actually have it if you add /feed or /feed.xml to the url.

I have to wonder how much more dead RSS would be if Wordpress (like, 90% of blogs/news sites) didn't create a /feed by default.

Check this out: Puts an RSS/Atom subscribe button back in URL bar. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/

Helps discover rss feeds for sites.

That is great, thanks. Got back into RSS lately and doing the ol "look for RSS link in footer and then guess at /feed" rigmarole every time gets old fast.

The screenshot of the RSS icon in the url bar brings back a memory I don't know if I had. Didn't Firefox used to do this by default or am I misremembering?

The playlist feed will only show the first 15 videos.

I haven't used the playlist one, I just knew it existed

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