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November 19, 2008

YouTube Feeds for your Video Widgets

YouTube offers a plethora of feeds (found here), but by golly none of them have video content IN the feed. If I wanted to include one of these feeds in a video widget, I'd be out of luck because the RSS post items only contain a link and a thumbnail. So for a while I figured there wasn't a good way to get YouTube content into a widget.

Not so fast! At yesterday's webinar a question was asked about adding YouTube channels to a video widget. I Googled this and found a great article that points you to some of the available feeds made from YouTube content: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/01/youtube-feeds.html

So channels, search terms, and favorites can all be added to a widget! I made one with my favorited videos, so now I can watch "You Suck at Photoshop" anytime :D

Posted at 09:04 AM in Feed Content & Data, Widget Tips & Tricks |

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