YouTube channels are available to embed in a website as RSS feeds and FeedWind can display them all. This allows you to publish one or more YouTube feeds through a widget on your website. For general use the process is really simple. Update: YouTube no longer provides RSS feeds from subscriptions - RSS is only available from a channel ID or a specific user ID. The YouTube v2.0 API is now deprecated, so older URL parameters will not now work with current YouTube feeds. Setting the sort orderHere are some parameters still available in the v3 API. You can use these your feed URL to help display your feeds in proper sort order.
To use them, replace "XXXXXX" with your channel or User ID Please note that the default sort order from YouTube will not result in very a useful sort order. (They use a combination of the updated date and the published date). You can set the sort order in the FeedWind setup screen, OR you can add the above parameters; they should work the same. However, the FeedWind sort feature also allows for sorting buy "Oldest" and "Random" should that be required. |
Displaying multiple YouTube RSS feeds in a single widget
If you need to display RSS feeds from multiple YouTube channels, you can use multiple RSS feeds aggregated into a single feed. YouTube is organized much like many other places that offer continuously updating content. In their case they use “channels” which are organized just like TV channels, by topic, genres, age group etc.– the main difference being that a YouTube channel can be started and run by anyone as they are free and not subject to broadcasters fees etc. that TV stations must adhere to. This has made YouTube into the world’s largest broadcaster so anyone looking to find suitable content to feed into their site should look no further.
Content from YouTube is also royalty free as long as it is used within the scope of the YouTube Terms of Service. This makes YouTube an ideal source for material for any website. There are 8 years of content uploaded every day to YouTube – a simply staggering amount of content!
Activate a podcast/video player in the feed
Select any parameters that you might want to adjust such as colors and design options and then open the General section, >Advanced Settings and ensure that "Thumbnail Resizing" is set to "Auto" or set the "Style" to Text only. Either setting will work fine with YouTube videos.
To display a YouTube video player in your feed, open the Feed Content section, >Advanced Settings and toggle the radar button for the YouTube player. You can display either an icon, or a YouTube player (to play the video on or playback an audio track) or hide them both and display just a text output with a link. Switching to "Content Only" in the Feed Contents section removes the text and leaves just a podcast player or the YouTube player behind. The "Time/Date" can also be toggled to off here.
Whatever your YouTube channel offers, it can be fed to your website through a FeedWind widget - its free and easy so there is every reason to give it a try!
