YouTube feeds

A YouTube feed is a smart feed of YouTube videos. Each video becomes a feed item with its title, thumbnail, a player, its view and like counts, and a link to the channel. Use it to share new videos from your own channel, to follow creators in your field, or to collect videos on a topic.

Before you start: add a Google API key

Feedigy reads YouTube with your own Google API key. The key is free, and you add it once.

1. In the Google Cloud console, create a project and turn on the YouTube Data API v3.
2. Under Credentials, create an API key and copy it. It starts with AIza.
3. In Feedigy, open Generate smart feed, choose YouTube, and select Add new account….
4. Paste the key into Google API Key and select Connect.

You can also add the key on the YouTube channel page. If you have more than one key, choose which one a feed uses from the account list at the top of the form.

Create a YouTube feed

1. Open Content feeds in the sidebar, then Generate smart feed.
2. In Select a source channel, choose YouTube.
3. Choose Keywords, Channels or Playlists (see below).
4. Check the videos in Live preview on the right.
5. Select Generate.

Keywords, channels or playlists

• Keywords: type a search and press Enter. You get the videos YouTube finds for it.
• Channels: type a channel name and pick it from the list. You get the channel’s newest videos.
• Playlists: type a playlist name and pick it from the list. You get the videos in that playlist.

You can add up to 10 searches, channels or playlists. Each one becomes its own feed. Select one to preview its latest videos. When you edit a feed later, it holds one.

Advanced mode

• Filter by keywords (channels and playlists): keep only videos whose title or description contains one of these words.
• Negative keywords: skip videos that contain any of these words.
• Sort videos by:
  • Keywords: Relevance, Date, Rating or View count.
  • Channels: Date or Title. The default is Date, so the newest videos come first.
• Tags: tags for the new feeds. Youtube is added for you. See Tags.

After you generate

The new feeds appear on the Content Feeds page with the Smart type. Feedigy refreshes a YouTube feed at most every 4 hours, when the feed is read. Each refresh uses a little of your Google API key’s daily quota.

To share new videos on your channels automatically, add the feed to an Auto-Publisher.