Youtube Subscriptions in Google Reader and Boxee
Posted on June 13, 2010
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So I got fed up of not being able to watch my youtube subscriptions in google reader or boxee. If you make an embed video file in the body of the text of a blog post, you can see that video in Google Reader. Well Youtube’s feed for subscriptions http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/user/newsubscriptionvideos doesn’t include an embed. So I did my magic and made it make an embed, I skipped yahoo pipes because, honestly it confuses me too much. I wrote a quick something in php to take care of it. Just hit http://webutils.bryanprice.info/YoutubeSubscriptionEmbed/?user=yourusername replacing “yourusername” with your username and you will have a feed with the embeds that you can pop into google reader. If you want to view your subscriptions in Boxee, take an extra step of running the feed through feedburner make sure you choose the option “i’m a podcaster”. Now add this subscription via the Boxee web interface and now you have your YouTube subscriptions in Boxee!
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Nice work.
I really think Boxee’s integration with Google apps like Picasa and YouTube is its weakest aspect.
You thinking getting it working would be more of a priority then some of the other apps.