BetterVideoRss

BetterVideoRss is a PHP script for generating YouTube channel and playlist RSS feeds using YouTube's Data API and RSS feeds.

Installation

docker-compose

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version: '3'

services:
  app:
    image: ghcr.io/verifiedjoseph/better-video-rss:1.8.4
    container_name: BetterVideoRss
    environment:
      BVRSS_YOUTUBE_API_KEY: ''
      BVRSS_SELF_URL_PATH: 'https://example.com/'
      BVRSS_TIMEZONE: 'Europe/London'
    ports:
      - '127.0.0.1:8080:8080'
    volumes:
      - cache:/app/cache
    cap_drop:
      - ALL
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges:true

volumes:
  cache:

Manually

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1. Download the latest release to your web server and extract the zip archive.

2. Configure the application using config.php copied from config.example.php.

   cp config.example.php config.php
   

Notes

The cache and vendor folders do not need to be reachable in the browser and access should blocked.

Configuration

Environment variables are used to adjust the configuration. Alternatively, you can use config.php (copied from config.example.php).

Required variables

Name	Type	Description
BVRSS_SELF_URL_PATH	string	Fully qualified URL used to access BetterVideoRss.
BVRSS_YOUTUBE_API_KEY	string	YouTube API Key (developers.google.com)

Optional variables

Name	Type	Default value	Description
BVRSS_TIMEZONE	string	UTC	Timezone (php docs)
BVRSS_DATE_FORMAT	string	F j, Y	Date format (php docs)
BVRSS_TIME_FORMAT	string	H:i	Time format (php docs)
BVRSS_CACHE_DIR	string	cache	Cache directory path.
BVRSS_DISABLE_CACHE	boolean	false	Disables caching.
BVRSS_ENABLE_CACHE_VIEWER	boolean	false	Enables cache viewer.
BVRSS_DISABLE_CSP	boolean	false	Disables content security policy.
BVRSS_RAW_API_ERRORS	boolean	false	Enables displaying of raw API errors.

Documentation

• Caching

Requirements

• PHP >= 8.2
• Composer
• PHP Extensions:
  • curl
  • mbstring
  • simplexml

Changelog

All notable changes to this project are documented in the CHANGELOG.

License

MIT License. Please see LICENSE for more information.