YouTube officially supports channel RSS feeds, but I'm facing severe difficulties in finding the feed. Using the channel URL isn't possible at least in Thunderbird. Firefox appears to be currently unable to detect the feed (used to work in the past, but somewhat unreliably and refreshing the page was occasionally necessary) and Google Chrome has no native RSS support to my knowledge.
There's a method to manually create a feed, but it may no longer work (channel-external-id
appears not to exist in the source of all channels, there's channel_id
instead):
- View the page’s source code
- Look for the following text:
channel-external-id
- Get the value for that element
- Replace that value into this URL:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCBcRF18a7Qf58cCRy5xuWwQ
example channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SesameStreet/videos