I’m trying to add https://www.youtube.com/@EverythingMoney which won’t work. Can anybody try this?
I also tried adding it via:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=
and the id from here:
which gave me:
UChBVf9YnourrEDTsbbwJPRA
If you read the Channel ID directly from the feed itself, rather than through a 3rd party service, does it still fail? (If so, then yes, I suspect Youtube wants to funnel you through its own subscription notification system)
edited from How to subscribe to YouTube RSS Feeds without third-party services - gHacks Tech News
- Open the creator channel on YouTube, e.g., https://www.youtube.com/user/PewDiePie
- Right-click on a blank part of the page and select “view page source”. Depending on the browser that you use, it may have a slightly different name. Alternatively, prepend view-source: before the URL and hit the Enter-key.
- Search for browse_id. You may open the search option with Ctrl-F, or from the browser’s main menu.
- The browser jumps to the first instance of browse_id in the source code. Copy the string of the value field that is right next to it; this is the channel’s ID.
On the page on ycombinator mentioned by @steanne the problem is reported to be solved… magically 
Seems to be a common prob from time to time with YT fiddling with their software…
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The following two links are the same YouTube channel:
Newsblur finds the RSS feed using the second link, but not the first.
I would appreciate it if Newsblur could look up the channel ID and RSS feed automatically.
Good idea! I’m fixing other YouTube issues today, but I’ll deploy this fix later today.
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Ok, everything YouTube related is now fixed. We support playlists, channels, and usernames. I’ve also added support for youtube.com/@username style urls. Happy to add any more functionality, just let me know!
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Thx a lot Will test it out and come back in case 
Seems the Channel name is lost on the already subscribed channels in the overview column and on the post itself:
When adding new ones they are shown as expected:
Excellent catch, fixed and deployed. It should be automatically fixed within the next few hours for those stories.
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@samuelclay Thanks! It works great now. However, I get a weird result when adding this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JimLill – is that channel configured wrong somehow?
Just confirming that I get an error with the channel you referenced too. I thought the dash from the one in my thread might be the issue but obviously there’s something else going on.
I poked around in the source code for the front page of various YouTube channels. They all have an RSS link element, for example:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS"
href="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCvAovXWLq8Q6VITKAB_Rjww">
It seems to me that NewsBlur should be using that.
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update?
It appears Newsblur subscribes to the wrong YouTube channel when the channel has an @username that matches a different channel which has a first gen youtube username that is the same.
i.e. subscribing to https://www.youtube.com/@Gametheory101 instead subscribes to https://www.youtube.com/Gametheory101 which is an entirely different channel.