[youtube] youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml is not downloading

[marabu88]

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Youtube allows you to get a list of videos using RSS like this: http://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCjzHeG1KWoonmf9d5KBvSiw

Attempting to download this URL leads to an error:

youtube-dl --verbose http://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCjzHeG1KWoonmf9d5KBvSiw
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCjzHeG1KWoonmf9d5KBvSiw']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.30.1
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.17763
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-89794-gc51301db14, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:user] feeds: Downloading channel page
WARNING: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
[youtube:user] feeds: Downloading page #1
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp36zpl0n4\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 605, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp36zpl0n4\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2215, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_default

If this way of downloading videos is not supported now, then please add it. Is it possible to use some kind of flag to indicate to the program that it is not a link to a YouTube channel, but an RSS?

Please, don't close it without any comments! This is not issue #2491! Since in this issue we are talking about functionality, which YouTube no longer supports. I'm just trying to suggest adding this method of downloading videos that is available now and appeared quite a long time ago.

[ealgase]

This could probably be supported pretty easily, but can't you just use https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjzHeG1KWoonmf9d5KBvSiw/?

[alexvong1995]

Indeed, it is easy. Assuming you have wget and sed installed, the following shell one-liner should work:

youtube-dl `wget -O - 'https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCjzHeG1KWoonmf9d5KBvSiw' | sed -n 's|.*"\(https://www\.youtube\.com/watch?v=[^"]*\)".*|\1|p'`

Does it work for you? This can of course be turned into a shell script if one wishes.