YouTube Feed for a Show – How to Create and Use

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Rather than subscribe (in my feed reader) to my YouTube feed of subscribed things (which bunches everything into one big stream), I'd like to subscribe (again, in my feed reader) to each of the things I'm interested in on YouTube separately. When interested in all the content from one user, the feed URL is simply

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/[user]/uploads

I've been trying to figure out how to get the feed for Freeman's Mind, but no luck. I've tried the following links:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/show/freemansmind
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/shows/freemansmind
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/show/freemansmind
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/shows/freemansmind
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/machinima/show/freemansmind
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/machinima/shows/freemansmind

Is there a feed for shows, or one which would almost uniquely identify only the contents of the show, such as user=machinima; title contains "Freeman's Mind"?

Based on the answers I have developed a bookmarklet to go to the relevant feed of a video or channel.

Best Answer

The short answer (the feed for Freeman's Mind) is:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/49C3B7EDD1624C55

The longer answer (to find this on your own): you need to go onto the creator's account page and click on the playlist for the show you want. The playlist ID (in this case, 49C3B7EDD1624C55) is found above the list of episodes, at the end of the URL box for the show.

You can then either plug that playlist ID into the end of the URL I gave you above, or if you want to do it on your own, go to YouTube's page for finding feeds, select "Get" in the Playlist section, and the input the ID you've found in the box. It then outputs the URI for the feed below.

Below is a screenshot of the feed page.

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