# TubeFeed

> YouTube subscription reader. Follow channels without a Google account. Tracks watched/unwatched videos in the toolbar badge. Filter out Shorts, organize into folders. All data stays in your browser, no tracking, no third parties.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/tubefeed](https://chrome-stats.com/d/tubefeed)

## Overview

- **ID:** `tubefeed`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** WEKS
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging
- **Daily users:** 5
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 0.6.16
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-22
- **First published:** 2026-04-20
- **Size:** 109 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tubefeed/)

## Description

TubeFeed is a lightweight YouTube subscription reader. Follow channels without a Google account, track what's new, open what you want.

Features:
• Add any YouTube channel by URL, @handle, or /channel/UC... ID
• Unread counts per channel, per folder, and in the toolbar badge
• Opens to Unwatched Videos automatically on launch if there's anything to watch
• "Unwatched Videos" and "All Feeds" cross-channel views
• Five view modes: Compact, Medium, Grid 3, Grid 4, Large
• Organise channels into folders with drag-and-drop reordering. Folders are collapsible and have their own unread badge. Click a folder name to open a combined video feed for all channels in the group.
• Channel avatars shown in the sidebar
• Duration badge on every thumbnail. Self-healing: if YouTube doesn't expose the duration on the channel page, TubeFeed quietly looks it up from the watch page on the next poll. New videos can be held back from the feed for a short grace period (configurable, default 2 days) so thumbnails always show their length when they appear.
• Hide videos shorter than X minutes: one Settings toggle to filter out YouTube Shorts and other short-form clips.
• Right-click channels, folders, or individual videos for quick actions: update feeds, mark all viewed, move to folder, open channel page, mark as watched/unwatched.
• Context-aware search: filters channels when browsing All Feeds, filters video titles inside a channel
• Mark videos as watched or unwatched individually or all at once
• Customisable appearance: five theme presets including light mode, accent colour, individual font colours, and watched-video opacity. All preferences saved across sessions.
• Settings backup: export and import your appearance and feed settings as JSON
• Import and export your channel list via OPML (compatible with Feedbro and other RSS readers)
• Optional YouTube Data API key as a last-resort fallback when public endpoints fail

No tracking, no third parties. All requests go directly to YouTube; all subscription data stays in your browser.

Under the hood: TubeFeed queries YouTube's public channel pages. When the RSS endpoint works it is used first; if not, the public /videos listing is scraped directly. Video durations are read from YouTube's per-video watch page and cached locally so thumbnails always show length.

## Rankings

- #45,369 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `alarms`
- `tabs`
- `scripting`

### Host permissions

- `https://www.youtube.com/*`
- `https://consent.youtube.com/*`
- `https://www.google.com/sorry/*`
- `https://www.googleapis.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/tubefeed)