Getting All YouTube Subscriptions Into Newsboat easily with Vim magic

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In my video on getting YouTube subscription RSS links into NewsBoat (which can be found [HERE]) I show how I saved myself loads of time by simply taking advantage of built in Vim behavior (macros) to easily structure and format almost 200 RSS feed links in a way that would work to be pasted into the NewsBoat URLS file and be good to go upon refresh.

This whole idea came from my own struggle of trying to do this on my windows machine when I was preparing to transition fully to this Linux system. I was barely halfway through before giving up due to frustration. Now I can simply run a few macros and I'm all set. It literally took me only a few minutes to hammer out the necessary macros, format my posts and prepare everything for a simple cut/paste and then I was off to the races. I have been getting heavily into NewsBoat content and documentation lately and this was one of the big things that keeps me in the browser, watching YouTube videos. Now I can do it with NewsBoat and mpv, and I don't get sucked into the recommendations algorithm or see any ads.

Highly recommend moving entirely to NewsBoat, it will change your life and how to consume digital content, and hopefully the video will help make that transition all the easier.

The video will premier on Tuesday May 5th 2020 at 0700