YouTube officially supports channel RSS feeds, but I'm facing severe difficulties finding the feed. Using the channel URL isn't possible, at least in Thunderbird. Currently, Firefox appears unable to detect the feed (worked in the past unreliably, requiring occasional page refreshes) 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
doesn't appear in the source of all channels, channel_id
in its stead):
- 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