Get rss feed from a Youtube channel

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RSS is key to managing the stupid range of information sources we now have to juggle in the modern world.

Youtube channels also offer an RSS feed, although Youtube of course don’t want to advertise that fact as it means they don’t get your interaction data, nor can they keep you sucked in and clicking from video to video; great. More time and focus for us.

Execute the below script, giving the channel URL as the argument, e.g.:

./youtube-get-rss.sh https://www.youtube.com/@theGuardian

Note: the script uses pbcopy to copy to the clipboard, which is mac specific. Simply replace /usr/bin/pbcopy with whichever clipboard program your machine is using.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

channel=$1

rss=$(curl --silent ${channel} | grep -oh 'https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/feeds\/videos.xml[^\"]*' | sort -u)

echo ${rss} | /usr/bin/pbcopy
echo ${rss}