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Did you know YouTube has RSS feeds? No? Probably because YouTube makes them nearly impossible to find. But here's an easy way to get the RSS feed for any YouTube user. Based on <https://eggfreckles.net/2020/01/03/youtube-rss/>
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| #!/usr/bin/env zsh -f | |
| # Purpose: get the RSS feed for a YouTube page | |
| # Inspired By: https://eggfreckles.net/2020/01/03/youtube-rss/ | |
| # | |
| # From: Timothy J. Luoma | |
| # Mail: luomat at gmail dot com | |
| # Date: 2020-01-17 | |
| NAME="$0:t:r" | |
| if [[ -e "$HOME/.path" ]] | |
| then | |
| source "$HOME/.path" | |
| else | |
| PATH="$HOME/scripts:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin" | |
| fi | |
| for i in "$@" | |
| do | |
| CHANNEL_ID=$(curl -sfLS "$i" | fgrep -i '<meta itemprop="channelId" ' | awk -F'"' '//{print $4}') | |
| if [[ "$CHANNEL_ID" == "" ]] | |
| then | |
| echo "$NAME: no channel ID found for '$i'." >>/dev/stderr | |
| else | |
| echo "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=${CHANNEL_ID}" | |
| # copy URL to clipboard | |
| echo -n "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=${CHANNEL_ID}" | pbcopy | |
| fi | |
| done | |
| exit 0 | |
| #EOF |
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