How to Use RSS to Subscribe to a Youtube Channel

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In this tutorial, we'll learn how to use RSS to subscribe to a Youtube channel, so you can get notified when a channel posts new Youtube videos by your RSS client. More specifically, we'll learn how to figure out the URL for the RSS feed of a Youtube channel that you need to give your RSS client.

To figure out the URL of the RSS feed of a Youtube channel, follow the following steps:

1: go to the Youtube channel's profile page.

2: in the channel's description (bio), click on the "more" link. This will open a dialog titled "About" with all sorts of information about the channel.

3: at the bottom of the dialog, click on the "Share channel" button. This will show you a dropdown menu with two choices: "Share channel" and "Copy channel ID."

4: click "Copy channel ID."

Alternatively: if you can't find the channel ID of the channel, you may be able to find the RSS feed URL from the source code of the webpage. See [How to Find the RSS Feed URL of a Website].

5: paste the channel ID after the following text code:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=

For example, if the channel ID is UCowZK35JPR67lEMCQcjTIGA, the URL for its feed would be:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCowZK35JPR67lEMCQcjTIGA

If you paste the URL above in your RSS client, you'll be able be able to subscribe to the Youtube channel without even having an account on Youtube.

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