Changes to YouTube RSS Feed API

If anyone uses YouTube’s RSS feed feature, I discovered that YouTube’s API changed recently (4/20/2015). I was previously loading an RSS feed of my seminar video recordings using this feed: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/PL73209708FA681CD7

That link no longer works. Instead, you have to change it to the following format: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=PL73209708FA681CD7

This is an RSS feed of videos contained in a specific playlist. If you wanted to load all videos from a channel: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCgr05N5xskIubDvcUsprjzw

 

RSS feed = "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCgr05N5xskIubDvcUsprjzw".

 

Links included for reference:

WordPress Feeds Codex

 

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