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RSS feed button for YouTube channels
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Description
Feature Request: RSS Feed Button for Channels
Description
Add an RSS feed button to YouTube channel pages so users can subscribe via their RSS reader — a privacy-friendly alternative to YouTube subscriptions.
Why
- YouTube RSS Feed (GreasyFork) — dedicated script
- FeedTube (GreasyFork) — full RSS-based feed reader
- YouTube still provides RSS feeds at https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID
Preferred behavior
- RSS button on channel pages next to subscribe button
- Click to copy feed URL to clipboard
- Works for both channels and channel IDs
- Optional: auto-subscribe to RSS on subscribe click
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the channel-page UI entry point and the existing subscribe-button handling. Check how channel IDs are obtained, then verify the RSS URL and clipboard behavior on both channel and channel-ID pages; the work is done when an RSS button appears beside Subscribe and copies the correct feed URL.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100