Adding a YouTube Channel RSS Feed to Newsdesk®

Adding a YouTube Channel RSS Feed to Newsdesk^®

Every public YouTube channel has an RSS feed. The format is: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID

Replace CHANNEL_ID with the channel's YouTube channel ID.

How to find the channel ID

1. Open the YouTube channel.
2. If the URL already looks like: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx then the UC... value is the channel ID.
3. If the channel uses an @handle URL (for example, youtube.com/@Microsoft), you can:
   • View the page source and search for channelId, or
   • Use a channel-ID finder tool to resolve the handle to its channel ID.

To find the channel ID, it seems the easiest way is to:

1. Go to the channel
2. Right-click and select View page source
3. Cntrl-F and look for: channelID which should begin with UC

Example: If the channel ID is: UC1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKL

the RSS feed is:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKL

Once you have that url, you can pop over to Newsdesk/Search/Manage Sources and click the Add Source button

Click on Add RSS feed and paste the channel’s RSS feed url into the box

If you have any questions, please check with your Lexis Account Team.