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FYI: YouTube provides RSS feed for every channel. The URL is as follows:

    https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID

And without downloading with yt-dlp, videos can be watched from youtube-nocookie.com in full-window mode (no distractions) under:

    https://cinemaphile.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID

>>voytec+(OP)
You can use the wonderful mpv player to view videos directly from a yt-url (yt-dlp backend).

>>voytec+(OP)
i made a tool to extract the rss feed from a channel too!

https://shorts.aviparshan.com/rss-feed

>>voytec+(OP)
The excellent “Play”⁽¹⁾ app (available for iOS, macOS, Apple TV and Vision Pro) can also use these feeds, plus give you the ability to conveniently save other videos to “watch later”. Highly recommended!

⁽¹⁾ https://marcosatanaka.com/

>>voytec+(OP)
In the past several months, I've moved to using an RSS Reader + Watch Later Playlist + DF Tube extension (you could use whatever to nuke parts of the UI you dislike). This has greatly improved how I use YouTube. This method allows me to be significantly more intentional with what I'm watching and how much time I'm spending. The only frustrating part is that YT shorts still come through RSS, but they are much easier to avoid in a reader than YT's UI.

>>voytec+(OP)
I used this to make a Youtube viewer "application" that lists my subscriptions most recent videos, and i can watch them when i get a chance. Just a list. no thumbnails, no click bait, no random algorithm recommendations, just stuff i want to watch.

>>voytec+(OP)
Pssst! Keep this on the down-low or they'll take all of this away from us. >smile<

Seriously, though, w/o RSS feeds Youtube would be completely useless to me. I keep waiting for Google to kill them.

>>eddyg+j4
In addition to the main purchase price, this app charges 3.99/month for: -following channels -following playlists -removing shorts and many more features on top of those.

>>Fiely+G7
You can change the first 4 characters of the channel ID to UULF to only get "Videos" (no shorts)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71192605/how-do-i-get-yo...

>>crtasm+Dm
This is very useful, thank you for sharing.

>>voytec+(OP)
Can also use google sheet + app scripts + youtube api to add new videos from channels in playlists. Sheet can trigger every few hours to keep things up to date.

It does get more complicated if monitoring too many channels since execution will timeout due to sheets limit. But can make it to pickup where previously timedout.

Bonus using API gets you video info so you can filter by length (shorts), keywords etc. Limitation is ~150 videos added per day due to API limits.

>>grobib+Kf
There’s open source Unwatched[1] if you want something for free.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unwatched-for-youtube/id647728...

>>crtasm+Dm
Doesn't seem to work for any of the ~50 URLs I tried with. Eg:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCS0N5ba...

... works but:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UULFS0N5...

... is 404.

I'm guessing it's only a feature of playlist URLs which that SO answer is about, not RSS feed URLs.

>>Arnavi+KQ
Sorry, my notes were lacking. Change UC to UULF and use it with this URL to get the Videos feed for a channel:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UULFS0N...

>>Fiely+G7
> DF Tube extension

This extension is no longer available because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions.

:(