Youtube Custom RSS Search Results
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
Updated: June 6th, 2008
Update: The method described here is obsolete. Youtube and Google released a beautiful API located here: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/developers_guide_protocol.html. You can do everything mentioned in this article and a lot more using it. Here's a sample: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?alt=rss&racy=include&vq=BBC+Five&start-index=201&max-results=50
So it looks like YouTube updated its RSS page recently and now has the ability to create RSS feeds by tags or user, like so:
Tags:
For example, if you wanted to create an RSS feed for the tag "monkey," you would enter: http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/monkey.rss
Users:
http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/[insert_username_here]/videos.rss
For example, if you wanted to create an RSS feed for the user "YouTube," you would enter: http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/youtube/videos.rss
The search by tag approach, however, won't necessarily get complete results because it will depend on user tagging the videos. After digging around a bit (really, just trial-and-error method), I found an unpublished (I think) way to create RSS feeds based on actual search results.
Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/rss/search/[SEARCH_TERMS].rss
For example, http://www.youtube.com/rss/search/steve%20irwin.rss.
The number of results returned seems to be capped at 20. If anyone figures out a param to get this increased, please comment.
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March 29th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
The /rss/search/ url still performs a tag only search
After hacking around for a bit I found that if you prepend 'title:' to the keywords it _will_ do a title based search
ex: /rss/search/title:steve+irwin.rss
The only downside is that this does a *title only* search. It doesn't do a mixed tag/title search.
March 30th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
http://youtube.com/?v=76Bbpa6RJok
Title: steve irwin-all of the words
Description: steve irwin
Author: newsboyschic
Keywords: religious
Added: March 30, 2008
It doesn't have any steve irwin tags, yet it came up, so things seem to work.
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Thanks for the tip! I also added sort by and a MINUS and it worked fine.
http://www.youtube.com/rss/search/VMWARE+-FUSION&search_sort=video_date_uploaded.rss
I am now trying to get DOPPLER to download the videos..
May 4th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
This is exactly what I am looking for.
search_sort parameter as suggested by Carlos didn't work for me. It just ignores that parameter.