Show HN: Email notifications on new YouTube uploads
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Re: Show HN: Email notifications on new YouTube uploads
#2For HN I'm using the digest https://www.hndigest.com/, so I decided to create something similar for youtube. The tool is rather simple - it relies on having your subscriptions to be public and periodically - once a day - checks them to find if there is something new. The tool is available for free at https://yt2email.com
I've made the tool completely serverless. There is one AWS Lambda behind API gateway to server to main page and unsubscribe hook. Users are stored in DynamoDB - again serverless with on-demand capacity mode. Another lambda is cron based that looks for new uploads and sends SQS message to the last lambda, which eventually sends the email with AWS SES. Since SES is rate limited I've chosen SQS+Lambda to allow for resend in case I reach the limit
All my AWS resources fall into free tier for now and YouTube API is free up to a certain point.
tldr; If email > youtube mobile uploads notification => https://yt2email.com