Now that API v2 is gone, what would be a way to get a simple RSS feed of a channel, without v3 API? I\'m open to Yahoo Pipes or any workaround that is simpler than creating
There also exist RSS-Bridge witch can extract RSS feeds from a lot of services like Twitter, Google+, Flickr, Youtube, Identi.ca, etc.
source: https://github.com/sebsauvage/rss-bridge
demo server: https://bridge.suumitsu.eu/
I've made a batch script that creates an RSS feed of your new subscription videos. You don't need an API key. The script uses 2 external tools: YouTube-DL and Xidel.
Anyway, read the following thread, and go to post 98 to download the script: http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=3946#c98
I hope someone codes this to php, python, javascript, powershell or bash.
If you inspect any Youtube channel page, inside the <head>
you will find an rss meta node like this:
<link rel="alternate"
type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS"
href="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCn8zNIfYAQNdrFRrr8oibKw">
This should provide you with the data you need.
You can get the feeds like this:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNELID
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=USERNAME
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=YOUR_YOUTUBE_PLAYLIST_NUMBER
But the JSON format which used to be supported (with additional parameter &alt=JSON
) is not supported anymore.
Additionally you can request for API key for public access to your YouTube videos from your developer console and get YouTube Videos, Playlists in JSON format like this:
- Get Channels:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=snippet%2CcontentDetails&forUsername={YOUR_USER_NAME}&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
- Get Playlists:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlists?part=snippet%2CcontentDetails&channelId={YOUR_CHANNEL_ID}&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
- Get Playlist Videos:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet%2CcontentDetails%2Cstatus&playlistId={YOUR_PLAYLIST_ID}&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
More information from YouTube v3 docs.