[k2enemy]

I love NNW, especially the new iteration since Brent got it back. Mac-assed software at its best.

The other day I was searching for how to turn a youtube channel into an RSS feed and tried all sorts of convoluted instructions for finding channel IDs, etc. At some point I thought this is the kind of user-centric thing that NNW has probably already thought of, and sure enough, if you just paste in a youtube channel URL as the feed, NNW sorts it out and creates a feed for you.

[kevincox]

> if you just paste in a youtube channel URL as the feed, NNW sorts it out and creates a feed for you.

While I don't doubt that NNW has great UX, feed auto-discovery is a table stakes feature for any RSS client.

[navanchauhan]

I thought YouTube had native RSS feeds for channels?

[xp84]

It does - I think the praise being sung was just that you don't need to know how to construct them. YouTube doesn't have a little orange rectangle "RSS" link to click, or anything.

[k2enemy]

At one point (when I first tried this) I'm pretty sure youtube didn't have a link to an rss feed in the source. I had grown used to going to source and searching for "rss" and "xml." However, I just checked and they definitely do have a link now!

[onli]

Oh, thanks for the hint! I might be able to remove some code from my feed detection code (on pipes) then.

But on a first glance, it seems like alternate links for channels are back, but playlists are missing. Still, that might be a step forward.

[trekz]

I think openrss.org has YouTube playlist feeds

[onli]

Yeah, quite possible. You can construct the feed by some rules, mine are here: https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes/blob/4243c9234ddab6a3... - but then you have to monitor whether it still works periodically. Being able to replace that by proper meta tags would be nice.

Using openrss.org as an intermediary might work as well, but not ideal to rely on a third party for that.