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Teaching feed readers about YouTube subscriptions

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Re: Teaching feed readers about YouTube subscriptions

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I've always just gone to the youtube channel page, view source, search for "rss", copy the URL and paste it into my feed reader. It would be great if it was more discoverable, but it's not really like you need a whole separate tool.

Most of the rss readers I know allow that. What OP built there is something that stays in sync with your subscriptions, so when you add or remove one it is automatically added or removed from you reader and do not need manual intervention

Re: Teaching feed readers about YouTube subscriptions

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post #5

I've always just gone to the youtube channel page, view source, search for "rss", copy the URL and paste it into my feed reader. It would be great if it was more discoverable, but it's not really like you need a whole separate tool.

Most of the rss readers I know allow that. What OP built there is something that stays in sync with your subscriptions, so when you add or remove one it is automatically added or removed from you reader and do not need manual intervention

If you have a feed reader system there is no need to subscribe in the first place. You’ve obviated that system.

Re: Teaching feed readers about YouTube subscriptions

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post #5

I've always just gone to the youtube channel page, view source, search for "rss", copy the URL and paste it into my feed reader. It would be great if it was more discoverable, but it's not really like you need a whole separate tool.

Right, and [kjkjadksj says](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445957) a similar thing:

> If you have a feed reader system there is no need to subscribe [via YouTube] in the first place. You’ve obviated that system.

This approach works, and it's a great way to subscribe to public channels without a YouTube account. The main reason I'm not doing it is that I want to subscribe via YouTube.

> It would be great if it was more discoverable

Oh, hopefully there's a browser extension that detects feeds on a page and lights up and provides a menu. Shame that the YouTube mobile app isn't similarly extensible.

Re: Teaching feed readers about YouTube subscriptions

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Most of the rss readers I know allow that. What OP built there is something that stays in sync with your subscriptions, so when you add or remove one it is automatically added or removed from you reader and do not need manual intervention

If you have a feed reader system there is no need to subscribe in the first place. You’ve obviated that system.

not if you want to keep your youtube subscriptions for a reason or another

Re: Teaching feed readers about YouTube subscriptions

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have a feed reader system there is no need to subscribe in the first place. You’ve obviated that system.

not if you want to keep your youtube subscriptions for a reason or another

Why though? You already have the feed urls. A list of urls is the same a subscribing to channels essentially. Both do the job of letting you know a new video is released.
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