Email notification on new YouTube uploads

[E1cid]

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and here is how to fetch with http request node (as i do not have rss feed parser install).
Then pass through xml node. And finally select the items required.

[H2SO4JB]

dceejay:
Wow, thank you so much! That's exactly how I want it. Oh my God, how many things you had to add. I had never been able to do that myself.

But now it's easy for me to add more RSS sources. The only thing I don't get to work is the video thumbnail image in the email. This is not important of course, but would have been nice if it worked. I only receive an email with the clickable link. Can you explain that?

E1cid:
Thanks you too. However, I did not test your flow because the above works so well. But still thanks for an alternative option.

[dceejay]

So how do you have it now ? the template should have just created a small html fragment with both the static image and the link text as the payload.
I get emails like

[H2SO4JB]

dceejay:
I managed to get the thumbnail image in the email to appear. I had to delete the / character in the image link, otherwise no image was displayed. I will mark your answer as a solution for so long, but I will test this for a few days and evaluate if it works as well as IFTTT. Thank you so much for the help I have got so far. I will return...

[H2SO4JB]

Hi again!
I have now been testing for 24 hours and it works fantastically well. However, I have noticed a slightly annoying thing. Some YouTube channels adjust the title of an uploaded video after a while, usually just a spelling correction, and Node-RED believe this change is a new video upload and a new email notification is sent for the same video with the same video URL.

I don't know how the RSS Feed applet in IFTTT works, but IFTTT does not behave like this. Right now while I am testing, I subscribe to the same RSS Feeds also with IFTTT to compare with. Only one email notification is sent per video even if the title is changed at a later time.

Is it possible to somehow fix this with a filter or condition in Node-RED?

[dceejay]

Hi maybe like this

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In the first change I now use the article guid as the topic - hopefully that doesn't change when they update - and then in the second change node move the stored title back to the topic for the email.

[H2SO4JB]

Thank you for taking the time to help me. I think I understand what you mean, but I had
never come up with a solution myself. I'm testing this for a while and will be back...

[H2SO4JB]

Hi again,
Now I have been testing for a while and everything works exactly as I wanted. Thank you all for the help, and especially you "dceejay".