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So, there's no scripts or any of these magic code stuff that i can put on my browser to allow me to organize my YouTube subscriptions per subject, right? Instead of just having one massive feed full of random stuff or creating a new account for each feed?


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Youtube channels still have RSS buried deep, deep within them. The downside is, it's a bit obtuse to get the feed URL. Youtube wants you to use

What you want is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCDRmGMSgrtZkOsh_NQl4_xw where that big string at the end is the "browseid" of the channel you're looking at. You can open up the youtube video in the inspector and ctrl+f for "browseid" to get the value, but that takes time and sucks if you have dozens of channels to do.

A while back I made a really nasty linux one liner to spit out the full RSS url for me. One would change the youtube URL at the beginning to the channel of choice.

curl https://www.youtube.com/c/SecretBaseSBN | grep -oE ".{0,10}@id.{0,100}" | perl -pe 's|.*\.com\\\/channel\\\/(.*?)\".*|\1|' | echo "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=$(</dev/stdin)"

That of course requires having access to something running linux with perl installed, which may be a big ask depending on how much of a dork you are.

I did a quick online search to see if someone had made this a webpage, it was mostly guides and the one site that said it would do this gave me a feed, but wouldn't give me the feed URL without an account.

If you have a LOT of subscriptions, like 100+, you'll probably want to start by exporting those from your account. Freetube has a guide for doing so which will give you a CSV that contains the browseid/channelid mentioned above (plus some extra data), that you can then turn into RSS feed URLs however you see fit.

Sorry for all the words, I thought I made a post about this before but I couldn't find it if I did. I love having Youtube fed to me in an RSS reader. I only get the video titles, no thumbnails or extra crap. But it can be a real pain to get set up if you don't know where to look. And I do not wish to subjugate people to modern web search to find those answers if I can avoid it.

Freetube is very good! I use it wholesale instead of Youtube, though about half of my watching is going direct from RSS feed URL to playing it in mpv. Mpv is great but probably more work to set up plumbed like that in Windows.

It does not have any way to split subscriptions into subfolders, unfortunately. At least not that I saw when I checked before my first post.

I do not know of good readers on Windows, I've been on the Linux side of things for a while now. The reader I use there is Liferea, which isn't anything special but does the job. I was very very late to the RSS bandwagon so I don't have a lot of advice for how to use it unfortunately.