yt-rss

A small Flask app which parses YouTube Atom feed via feedparser and generates a new one via feedgen.

The problem this app solves is that YouTube feeds feature some non-standard tags, which elfeed (my RSS client of choice) can’t recognize. So entries from a YouTube feed lack preview and description.

Invidious feeds don’t have such a problem, but public instances seem to be unstable, and hosting one takes some resources. Hence this program.

Installation

Install the dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Change a token in .env file:

TOKEN=secret

Run for production via a server of your choice, I prefer gunicorn:

gunicorn main:app

If you want to deploy the thing behind a reverse proxy, you’d have to do something like this (for nginx):

location /yt-rss/ {
    rewrite /yt-rss/(.*) /$1 break;
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
}

Usage

A feed for a channel will be available at

http://localhost:8000/<channel_id>?token=<token>

How to get a Channel ID