TinyFeed

A lightweight, easy to use youtube channel & playlist feed aggregator

Features

Supports youtube channels and playlists
Displays latest videos from added channels/playlists
Ability to filter available videos by publishing date
Search functionality for added channels and playlists
Displays minimal video preview on hover over the video thumbnail
Minimal, smooth interface
Toggle between light and dark modes

Dependencies

Python 2.7 (pending update to python 3)
Flask
Requests

Usage

Clone the repository
In the main directory, create a folder named store
Navigate to store and create a file named data.json
Open data.json in a text editor and therein type {}
Save and exit the text editor
Double click app.py or run python app.py flask run in the terminal
Navigate to localhost or 127.0.0.1 on your web browser

Adding channels/playlists

Extract the channel or playlist ID from its URL or page on youtube
Click Add Channel on the TinyFeed homepage and paste in the ID
Channel ID example: UCtkZ7ARSt6LjifuTDkajT-g
Playlist ID example: PLF2KJ6Gy3cZ7jCgV1VEAIcr867nCkynPn
Bookmarklet for extracting channel ID when it is not present in URL (navigate to the channel page before use):

javascript: for (var arrScripts = document.getElementsByTagName('script'), i = 0; i < arrScripts.length; i++) {if (arrScripts[i].textContent.indexOf('externalId') != -1) {var channelId = arrScripts[i].textContent.match(/\"externalId\"\s*\:\s*\"(.*?)\"/)[1];var channelTitle = document.title.match(/\(?\d*\)?\s?(.*?)\s\-\sYouTube/)[1];alert('The ID of the channel \'' + channelTitle + '\' is:\n\n' + channelId);break;}}

Building

Pyinstaller may be used to build TinyFeed though this has not been tested yet. There are plans to release Windows and Linux binaries in the future.

Limitations

All limitations resultant of the youtube channel and playlist rss/atom feed affect TinyFeed and may impede its proper functioning in certain cases.

Credits

Part of the app icon/favicon came from svgrepo.com
Empty state icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com
Xmltodict library by martinblech

Screenshots

Video demo

License

This project is released under the GPL-3.0 license. See the included license file.

ANSH3LL/TinyFeed