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I wrote a program that exposes my YouTube subscriptions as a news feed. It's seriously a relief to finally have this stuff show up in [my feed reader](https://www.newsblur.com).

It's not a "Show HN" because there's no way for others to try it (yet).

Some things I'm curious about:

* Is anyone else here doing something similar?

* Would anyone like to use this service?

* Are there other YouTube-meets-news-feed features that you'd love to see?

> YouTube publishes Atom feeds for channels (as of 2025-06-28) and makes them available via <link rel="alternate">

This is very good to know!

I've always just gone to the youtube channel page, view source, search for "rss", copy the URL and paste it into my feed reader. It would be great if it was more discoverable, but it's not really like you need a whole separate tool.

I’ve built ytemail.com to fix a similar itch, mostly because I was the 0.1% that liked the YouTube email notifications before Google killed it. No open registrations, but I can hook you up if you email me at contact@<domain>.

As a fun side note. This location is prohibited by robots.txt

I personally don't care, as big tech CEO already said in dawn of AI that they don't care about robots.txt

Additionally I have a project that is able to read RSS links and provides it in JSON response

https://github.com/rumca-js/crawler-buddy