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Create Portable YouTube Subscribe Button (as widget, iframe, html)

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Make your own YouTube subscribe button as an iFrame widget

On a visit to Smosh.com, I noticed the fellas had a little widget that recognized me as Nalts and had a subscribe button. So I snatched the HTML iFrame thingy, and managed to insert it as a wordpress widget. iFrames usually make my blog puke, but they’re working okay.

Here’s the code:

<p><iframe src=”http://www.youtube.com/subscribe_widget?p=nalts” style=”overflow: hidden; height: 97px; width: 300px; border: 0;” scrolling=”no” frameBorder=”0″></iframe></p>

Just copy the above, paste it into your blog, and change “Nalts” to your username. I changed the pixel hight to 120 and the width to 200.

Rinse, repeat.

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Secret URL to Subscribe to YouTube Channel

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How do you provide a link that automatically takes a viewer to the YouTube page that allows them to confirm a subscription?

It took me quite a while to find this secret URL:

http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nalts

So you’d replace “Nalts” above with your channel/profile/username. And while you’re at it, subscribe to Nalts. 🙂

Of course the person clicking that URL would have to have a YouTube account, be logged in, and confirm the subscription.

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RSS a YouTube Channel

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Some of you aren’t regular YouTube viewers, but have loads of RSS (feeds) available via a reader. I use iGoogle as my reader, for instance, and I have a customized page loaded with RSS feeds from my favorite blogs and websites. Butterfly.

If you prefer to get alerts for new videos that way, here’s a feed URL you can use.RSS it, and you’ll have the latest Nalts video available without having to check YouTube subscriptions.

To change it to a feed of someone with talent, simply replace “nalts” with their username.

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/nalts/uploads?orderby=updated