YTRSSmaker

Youtube RSS feed maker.

This script converts the youtube channel urls to the links that can be used as a RSS feed! The script extracts the channel ID from the url and use that to construct a RSS url for use in your favourite RSS feed reader!

Requirements:

• bash or zsh
• curl
• cut

These should be standard utilities on linux and MacOs. For windows, please install wsl or git for windows. The scripts have been only tested on linux.

Providing a channel link

1. Download the github repo.
2. Copy the url of the youtube channel page.
3. Run the ./ytrssmind.sh with the url as the first argument. For e.g:

./ytrssmind.sh https://www.youtube.com/c/channel_name

Note: The url of some youtube channel pages may have a different structure than what is presented above. These urls should also work without any issue.

Using a text file with a list of links from youtube

1. Download the github repo.
2. Save a list of youtube channel pages in a text file (1 link per line).
3. Run the ./ytrssmfile.sh file with the path to the text file. For e.g:

./ytrssmexp.sh /path/to/text/file.txt

Using youtube subscription export:

1. Download the github repo
2. Export your youtube subscription list.
3. Unzip the export file.
4. Navigate to the YouTube and YouTube Music folder.
5. Navigate to the subscriptions folder.
6. Run the ./ytrssmexp.sh script with the path to subscriptions.csv file. For e.g:

./ytrssmexp.sh /path/to/export/subscriptions.csv

7. To generate a .opml file for RSS feeders please paste the youtube links you obtain from the program to the OPML generator

Closing remarks

I would appreciate any contributions from others! Please submit an issue using the github Issues tab if you encounter any bugs.