YouTube RSS Feed Generator
The feed YouTube publishes for every channel, and links to from nowhere.
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Overview
About this tool
Turns a handle, channel URL or playlist link into its RSS feed URL, then fetches the feed and shows what came back — so you know the URL works before you wire it into a reader or an automation.
Instructions
How to use it
Paste a handle, a channel URL or a playlist link. Channels need their immutable channel ID resolved first, which is the step that makes the feed URL hard to find by hand — the handle on its own will not work.
Why RSS is worth the trouble
It is the only way to follow a channel that costs no API quota, needs no key, has no rate limit and cannot be reordered by an algorithm. Every upload, in order, as soon as it publishes — which is why nearly every YouTube automation is built on it rather than on the Data API.
What you can wire it into
- Any RSS reader, to follow channels without a Google account.
- Zapier, Make or n8n, as a trigger that fires on every new upload.
- Discord and Slack, which both accept a raw feed URL.
- Your own site, to list a channel’s latest videos without an API key.
Questions
Frequently asked
Why does my handle not work in the feed URL directly?
The feed only accepts <code>channel_id</code> or <code>playlist_id</code>. Handles are a display layer on top and the feed endpoint has never understood them, which is why this tool resolves the ID first.
Do Shorts appear in the feed?
Usually, but not reliably — YouTube has filtered them in and out of the feed more than once. If Shorts matter to your automation, verify against a channel that posts them before you depend on it.
How often should I poll it?
Every 15 minutes is plenty and stays well clear of anything that looks abusive. The feed is cached upstream, so polling harder does not get you the video sooner.
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