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Let's say there's a channel that churns out a lot of content, but I am only interested in a subset of it. That content cannot be made into a show, as per some YouTube guideline or whatever, but the channel owner helpfully compiles it into a playlist.
I know it's possible to subscribe to a show, but what about a playlist?
(I actually remember doing so about 3 design iterations back, but I can't find it now.)
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.
I'm afraid that YouTube currently only has two security settings for Playlists: Public and Private. Public means that everyone can see it (if they got to your profile); Private means that only you can see it. This is slightly different than the settings for videos.
You can "share" a private playlist but, as the message tells you, the people you shared it with won't be able to see it until you make it public. At present, there's no such thing as an "unlisted" playlist. Your options are to share the list of video separately (like in an email message) or create a public playlist anyway and figure that no one else will really be interested in it.
If your YouTube profile is fairly public with followers of your own, another option would be to create a separate YouTube profile and create a public playlist with that. Unless you attract followers in some way with that profile, it's unlikely that someone would stumble over the public playlist(s) of that second (boring) profile.
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I'd make 2 changes to @eisb's suggestion:
In the documentation, it says "Similarly, if you prefer to use the base projection, which is well suited to feed readers, you can substitute base for api in any of the sample requests described in the API documentation." It seems the api projection is more for developers.
I've just added that to Google Reader and it works fine.