This allows someone to receive notifications about new videos on Youtube channels without using any Youtube account. It sends notifications as Discord private messages.

Install dependencies (see imports at the beginning of check.py).

Use crontab -e to run check.py every 10 or 20 minutes or so. Tested with Python 3.7.

Put your Discord bot's token in .env.

Create a file named config.json that looks like this.

{
	"users": [
		0123456789123456789,
		0
	],
	"channels" : [
		["aZDGgdADadgGAGdAADfdaadf", "Some Channel"],
		["hFSsSSFHHhFZZrfdggDqQdgD", "Another Channel"],
		["", "the end"]
	]
}