How to Find a YouTube Channel RSS Feed

YouTube exposes recent-upload feeds for public channels with eligible uploads. The dependable form uses the channel’s stable ID:

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

The difficult part is usually finding CHANNEL_ID. A modern YouTube URL often shows a handle such as @youtubecreators, while the feed expects an ID beginning with UC.

The quickest method: let your reader find it

Before inspecting source code, try the channel URL in your RSS reader. Feedly’s official instructions say you can search for a channel or paste its direct channel URL. Inoreader likewise supports finding public YouTube channels by search or URL.

This is the shortest route when it works:

1. Open the YouTube channel—not an individual video.
2. Copy the channel-page URL.
3. Paste it into your reader’s Add source or Add feed field.
4. Confirm that the preview shows uploads from the correct creator.

See the reader-specific walkthroughs for Feedly and Inoreader.

Find the feed in the channel-page source

If the reader cannot resolve a handle URL, use the feed reference embedded in the page:

1. Open the channel page in a desktop browser.
2. Choose View page source.
3. Search the source for feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=.
4. Copy the complete URL, stopping at the closing quote.
5. Decode & as & if the URL contains additional parameters.

Feedly documents this page-source fallback in its YouTube channel guide. YouTube also explains that a channel can have several URLs—handle, custom, legacy, and ID-based—while the ID-based URL contains the unique channel ID (YouTube Help).

You can then construct the feed directly:

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

Open that address in a browser. Seeing XML with recent video entries is normal; it is meant for feed readers rather than human browsing.

Confirm the source before saving it

Check the feed preview for the expected creator name and recent titles. If the browser displays raw XML, that is normal: subscribe to the URL rather than trying to read the document directly.

The most common setup mistakes are copying an individual video URL, placing an @handle where the UC… channel ID belongs, or selecting a similarly named creator in the reader’s search results.

This guide deliberately stops once the correct source is connected. For entry fields, recent-window behavior, caching symptoms, and missing-upload troubleshooting, continue with YouTube RSS Feeds Explained.

If you only want new-video alerts, the native feed is enough. If you want each upload delivered as a full reading experience, compare native YouTube feeds with full-article feeds.