Youtube RSS feed is customized with their own elements(prefixed with 'yt-').
This gem will parse youtube rss feed url and fetch feeds in standard rss format.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'youtube_feed'And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install youtube_feed
# any youtube playlist rss url / user videos rss url / channel videos rss url
# url = https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=PLwj9AQsvgODeGN2ZFEKQq15kDXwz8bnll
feed = YoutubeFeed::Parser.new(url).fetch_and_parse
feed.entries # returns an array of Entry objects
# => [<YoutubeFeed::AtomEntry ...>, <YoutubeFeed::AtomEntry ...>, ...]
These entry objects contain the data parsed from the feed XML:
entry = feed.entries.first
entry.link
# => "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lip-XpO3WIA"
entry.title
# => "Announcing verison 1.0"
entry.description
# => "Amazon Go will prompt retailers to rethink the checkout experience,...."
entry.author
# => "L2inc"
entry.thumbnail
# => "https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/Lip-XpO3WIA/hqdefault.jpg"
entry.entry_id
# => "Lip-XpO3WIA"
entry.channel_id
# => "UCBcRF18a7Qf58cCRy5xuWwQ"
entry.published_at
# => "2016-12-30T19:49:45+00:00"
entry.star_rating
# => "4.96"
entry.views_count
# => "64885"
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.