Turn any YouTube Channel in to an RSS feed

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I was looking for an RSS feed for a YouTube Channel for the content automation purposes when I stumbled upon some instructions from Daniel Miessler’s blog.

I’ve updated them a bit to reflect the changes to YouTube has made in simplifying channel URLs:

  1. Go to the YouTube channel you want to track
  2. Point your attention to the Address Bar of your browser
  3. Grab the string of code off the end which is your Channel ID, for instance, mine is:
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPavAskuDNLl8bMmz7KF9BQ
  4. Take the channel id string: UCPavAskuDNLl8bMmz7KF9BQ
  5. Replace that value into this URL after the channel_id=:
    https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCPavAskuDNLl8bMmz7KF9BQ

Boom, a nice RSS feed to use in your marketing and content automation strategies.