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Comment by begriffs | Hacker News Reader

Oh yeah, gotta love the secret feed link.

    https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=$FOO

I follow a number of channels this way. I'm grateful and sort of surprised YouTube hasn't killed it off.

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You don't need the "secret" feed link.

You can visit a channel's page directly, and copy the normal URL straight into your feed reader. It will do the right thing - thanks to the <link> tag, which YouTube advertises in the page source - as recommended by TFA. Your feed reader already knows what to do ;)

Interesting, maybe it depends on the reader. I tried a channel just now in newsboat and it wasn't smart enough to find the feed, even though I see the page contains

    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="...">

I use / have used: NetNewsWire (Mac/iOS), RSSGuard, Miniflux, TheOldReader.com, TinyTinyRSS, and some others I forgot about; I don't think I've seen one that doesn't support this feature. Perhaps you should open a bug / support request?

It's in the body--but it's supposed to be in the head.

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