FreshRSS - YouTube video extension
This FreshRSS extension allows you to directly watch YouTube/PeerTube videos from within subscribed channel feeds.
To use it, upload the xExtension-YouTube directory to the FreshRSS ./extensions directory on your server and enable it on the extension panel in FreshRSS.
Installation
The first step is to put the extension into your FreshRSS extension directory:
cd /var/www/FreshRSS/extensions/
wget https://github.com/kevinpapst/freshrss-youtube/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mv freshrss-youtube-master/xExtension-YouTube .
rm -rf freshrss-youtube-master/
Then switch to your browser https://localhost/FreshRSS/p/i/?c=extension and activate it.
Features
- Embeds Youtube videos directly in FreshRSS, instead of linking to the Youtube page
- Simplifies the subscription to channel URLs by automatically detecting the channels feed URL
You can simply add Youtube video subscriptions by pasting URLs like:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwbjxO5qQTMkSZVueqKwxuwhttps://www.youtube.com/user/AndrewTrials
Screenshots
With FreshRSS and an original Youtube Channel feed:
With activated Youtube extension:
About FreshRSS
FreshRSS is a great self-hosted RSS Reader written in PHP, which is can also be found here at GitHub.
More extensions can be found at FreshRSS/Extensions.
Changelog
0.10:
- Enhance feed content formatting when included
- Enhance YouTube URL matching
0.9:
- Set the extension level at "user" (users must re-enable the extension)
- Fix calls to unset configuration variables
- Register translations when extension is disabled
0.8:
- Automatically convert channel and username URLs to feed URLs
0.7:
- Support for PeerTube feed
0.6:
- Support cookie-less domain www.youtube-nocookie.com for embedding
0.5:
- Opened "API" for external usage
0.4:
- Added option to display original feed content (currently Youtube inserts a download icon link to the video file)
- Fixed config loading
0.3:
- Added installation hints
0.2:
- Fixed "Use of undefined constant FreshRSS_Context"
