How to Follow YouTube Channels in Feedly

Feedly can follow a YouTube channel directly. You can search for the creator, paste a channel-page URL, or add the channel’s feed URL when automatic discovery fails.

Add a channel directly

Feedly’s official YouTube instructions describe two primary methods:

Open Discover or add a new source.
Search for the YouTube channel by name, or paste its channel-page URL.
Select the correct source from the preview.
Choose the Feedly folder where it should live.

Use the channel page rather than an individual video URL. Verify the creator name and recent uploads before following, especially when several channels have similar names.

Use the direct feed URL as a fallback

If Feedly cannot resolve a handle URL, find the channel’s stable ID and use:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID

Feedly also documents a page-source fallback: open the channel page source, search for the RSS reference, and paste that URL into Feedly. Our guide to finding a YouTube channel RSS feed walks through the process.

The result is a feed of recent uploads. Each entry points to YouTube and contains upload metadata, not a full article.

Add an RSScribe article feed

RSScribe gives your account one private feed URL. Add that URL to Feedly like any other RSS source:

Copy the private feed URL from RSScribe.
Paste it into Feedly’s source search.
Confirm that the source title is RSScribe.
Place it in a folder such as YouTube reading.

New entries contain the article itself, plus a link to the original video. You do not need to add each transformed channel separately to Feedly; channel selection and reading rules remain in RSScribe.

Treat the private URL like a password. Anyone who has it may be able to read the feed. If it is exposed, rotate the feed token in RSScribe and replace the old source in Feedly.

Organize the result

Keep native upload feeds and full-article feeds in separate folders if you use both:

YouTube watch for native entries that require video;
YouTube reading for full articles;
Research reference for items you intend to keep or annotate.

This prevents a new-video notification from looking identical to a ready-to-read article.

Troubleshooting

If Feedly shows no source, open the feed URL directly and confirm it returns XML. If it resolves the wrong creator, use the ID-based feed. If an RSScribe feed stops updating after token rotation, remove the old URL and subscribe to the new one.

For another cloud reader, see following YouTube channels in Inoreader.