Their new pricing is in “public beta” but it sounds like it’ll be $7/month
Well, Heroku saves you from having to set up the entire machine I suppose (the way I’ve understood it anyway) but yea, that is lame.
The new free one isn’t enough?
Anyway, I’ve watched the github repo so I’ll see any discussion that shows up.
YouTube feeds with a channel_id and not a username have now been fixed. I also added a fullscreen attribute to force the embedded player to show fullscreen.
Awesome!
Say… as long as you’re manually generating the embed url, any chance you could use the HTTPS version?
OK. If people want to convert existing sites from either the old formats or DMack’s solution the URL format you need to use in site settings is http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/[USERNAME]/uploads changing to that will work, unlike just using the direct link to the user which works for adding new sites but not when changing settings for an old one.
Now I just need to decide which solution to use for all my feeds…
Timo, except those feeds do not validate so they’re sorta useless.
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I used the feed to include our Youtube videos on our website (and be able to search them using a keyword).
The new URL would be https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=woltexnl
Problem that I encountered is that when I test it with a Youtube user with a lot of vidoes it only shows the last 15.
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=robberthardwell
Not a huge problem at the moment but it will be once we added the 16th video. Is there any way to add commands to show more or show the next 15?
With the old RSS you could give additional commands.
This gave the first 50.
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/robberthardwell/uploads?orderby=updated&v=2&client=ytapi-youtube-rss-redirect&alt=rss&start-index=1&max-results=50
This gaves the next 50:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/robberthardwell/uploads?orderby=updated&v=2&client=ytapi-youtube-rss-redirect&alt=rss&start-index=51&max-results=50
I tried these additional comments to the new feed but they don’t work. 
Any alternative?
can you provide with video Id
- This isn’t exactly the correct place to ask for help regarding Youtube’s RSS feeds or their format/options.
- Feeds are almost always limited to a couple most recent items. If you want to show more than that you have to do what all feed readers do and save/remember the old items.
Playlists would be nice.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmXfFxjdp3CFWa1egQmUNo10XtJdNHoa2
The problem is that this “works”, it’s just not validating:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=PLmXfFxjdp3CFWa1egQmUNo10XtJdNHoa2
I put this together, alarmingly quickly:
https://morning-retreat-1911.herokuapp.com/
It seems to be working well with this feed:
https://morning-retreat-1911.herokuapp.com/feed/playlist.php?id=UU0iwHRFpv2_fpojZgQhElEQ
I’ll put it up on github shortly if anybody wants. I think I get 50 million API points per day, so it should always be enough, especially if Newsblur respects the channel TTL tag.
Lemme know what you think, feel free to start using it at that URL unless somebody has a better idea!
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It would be great if you could automatically upgrade the urls.
I’ve found the new URLs here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/339idg/youtube_just_dropped_its_support_for_rssatom_feeds/
For example,
I’m manually changing these type of URLS:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/CRASHCOURSE/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&…
OR
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/CRASHCOURSE/uploads
OR
youtube.com/rss/user/CRASHCOURSE
to this:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=CRASHCOURSE
(Note: the CRASHCOURSE is the example channel name in this case)
Another type of URL is for when the channel id is used instead of the channel name.
For example this one from handmade hero ( Channel ID: UCaTznQhurW5AaiYPbhEA-KA )
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/UCaTznQhurW5AaiYPbhEA-KA/uploads
has to be changed to:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCaTznQhurW5AaiYPbhEA-KA
Again, it would be great if this could be done automatically. (Without losing the unread items.)
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+1 on the automatic upgrade. I’ve got over 300 youtube feeds I’m following, most of them releasing stuff maybe once or twice a year. Going through each of them through settings and copy/pasting the channel name to notepad is getting a bit tedious…
Even the crappy new-style official feed would be better than 300 feeds saying “Uploads by Youtube Help” 
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