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by ahBef5ei 2149 days ago
It's also the only way I know to have RSS feeds for youtube channels. I hope other instances won't follow invidio.us, that would be a major loss for me. I could run my own instance of course, but then, running an instance to generate a RSS feed to consume it would feel overkilled, better to run a scrapper from cron directly.

Anyway, Invidious was an extremely useful tool, thanks to the author for making it.

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YouTube channels do have their own feeds, but there's no obvious way to get to them.

If it's a small channel, you can just copy the channel ID. Visit their YouTube channel, look at the URL, and construct your URL like this:

    https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID
If it's a larger channel, then the channel ID will be replaced by custom string and you'll have to look at the page source to find the channel ID.

You can also export all of your channels as OPML, which is actually documented (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6224202?hl=en) and upload it to your RSS reader.

Oh, nice. That certainly saves a lot of trouble in my case, thanks a lot :)