Adding an RSS feed to Boxee

Over my next few posts I am going to explain a number of ways that you can get the content you love from the web into your Boxee media centre.

I will start with the easier ways and work up through building more and more complex Boxee Apps one step at a time. The first couple of examples that I will demonstrate make the content available to you when you open Boxee. As you come up with ideas for Boxee Apps you most likely will want to start sharing your apps with others. To do this you need to set up a repository. I will go into this in a later post, for now lets look at the first way you can pull an RSS feed into Boxee.

In this example I am going to use an RSS feed for one of my favorite Youtube channels, that of Movies.ie. Youtube channels work really well with Boxee because each channel has its own RSS feed.

The URL for the Movies.ie feed is:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/moviesireland/uploads?orderby=updated&alt=rss

To change this to your favorite Youtube channel all you need to do is remove "moviesireland" from the URL and replace it with the username of your favorite channel.

Boxee has a nice feature called Feeds available through its website. To add this channel to your mediacentre all you need to do is log into boxee.tv, go to Feeds and click Add New.

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Enter the URL to your Youtube channel, select Video from Feed Type and press Add Feed.
If you entered the ULR correctly the feed will now show up under My Feeds.

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To view the feed in Boxee login and navigate to Applications > Video. Click on Video Feeds.

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And then on the name of your feed.

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You will see a list of the videos from your Youtube channel. As the creator of the channel uploads new videos the RSS feed will be updated and the latest videos will be available for you to watch through Boxee.

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