A few weeks ago, I needed to set up an RSS feed of a YouTube tag. When I searched YouTube’s help index, I couldn’t find anything about RSS, which was very surprising. However, a Google search quickly returned a YouTube page explaining how to set up RSS feeds for users, tags, and a whole host of other options.
I’m not sure if this is just an oversight on YouTube’s part, or if YouTube is trying to hide RSS (hoping that you’ll keep your subscriptions inside the service). Nevertheless, YouTube RSS works, and I’ve found it is a huge timesaver when trying to keep track of videos. Here’s the ten-second tutorial.
- To set up an rss feed for the tag “monkey”, use the following link (modify accordingly):
feed://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/monkey.rss - To set up an rss feed for the user “bob”, use the following link (modify accordingly):
feed://www.youtube.com/rss/user/bob/videos.rss
Thanks for the post. I have this site: activehunter.com for india feeds where I fetch videos related to India from youtube. So, my RSS url is http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/india.rss. But often we have spam videos coming related to porn as well, maybe, because these people have marked it india tag. Is there a way to remove the videos with these tags (porn, teen, sex etc).
Thanks