Did you know that YouTube does have RSS feeds available? Yes, it’s true! The only thing is, they don’t make this fact very well known, you have to know which page to go to to find out where it is. Interestingly, these RSS feeds are enclosure feeds, as in you should be able to use them in a podcast client (like iTunes) and it’ll download the shows (however, for these I recommend Miro).
I decided to create a Greasemonkey script that exposes these RSS feeds in a better location. It only works on the beta version of the pages (probably won’t make a normal version, but the beta pages are better anyway).
- If you haven’t already, download Greasemonkey for Firefox.
- Click here to open the script, and select Install from the notification bar at the top
- Go to any video, and if you want the RSS feed for the user click on the RSS icon in your address bar.
Clearly YouTube/Google don’t really want average Joe user to use these, but then, does average Joe user use web feeds?
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