ytfeed is a feed server that provides better RSS/Atom feeds for YouTube.
It works by providing a proxy around the official feeds and obtaining additional information by scraping the site.
A simple URL interface is provided, allowing access to feeds by channel handle and optional filtering.
- Block shorts from bloating your feeds
- Filter by video statistics
- Specify channels more easily using channel handles
- Hide sponsor messages from video descriptions
- View video stats right in your feed reader
- With Nix Flakes:
nix profile install github:rijkvp/ytfeed. - Without Nix:
cargo build --release, the resulting binary will be in./target/release/ytfeed.
Feeds can be accessed by providing a channel in the URL path. Channels can be specified either by a channel handle (starting with an '@') or by a channel ID used before handles.
Filters can be applied by specifying the following query parameters:
| Long | Short | Description |
|---|---|---|
count |
c |
Maximum video count (number) |
duration |
d |
Video duration (range) |
views |
v |
Number of views (range) |
likes |
l |
Number of likes (range) |
Ranges must be specified as a-b where a is the minimum and b is the maximum.
Either the minimum or maximum may be omitted (see examples below).
Note that YouTube shorts are filtered out by default, you don't have to explicitly filter for them.
Replace http://example.com/ by the location your instance is running.
A feed from @MyFavouriteChannel, but now better:
http://example.com/@MyFavouriteChannel
Filter on videos for channel @ChannelHandle longer than 10 minutes (600 seconds):
http://example.com/@ChannelHandle?d=600-
Filter videos from channel ID UCabcdefghijklmnopqrstuv on the last 8 videos with over 100,000 views and 10,000 likes:
http://example.com/UCabcdefghijklmnopqrstuv?c=8&views=100000-&likes=10000-
See using ytfeed --help
-s, --socket <SOCKET> Socket to bind the server to [default: 0.0.0.0:8000]
-t, --timeout <CACHE_TIMEOUT> Time to keep feeds in server cache before refreshing (in seconds) [default: 300]