No — there’s no public API that lets a third-party tool auto-post a Community post to a YouTube channel from an RSS feed. YouTube’s Community tab (text updates, polls, images shared directly to subscribers, separate from actual video uploads) simply isn’t exposed for third-party publishing the way Facebook Pages, X, or LinkedIn Company Pages are.
The YouTube Data API supports uploading videos, managing playlists, and reading channel data — but it has no endpoint for creating a Community post. This is a platform-level gap, not a limitation specific to any one automation tool: no scheduler or automation platform, dedicated or general-purpose, can genuinely auto-post to the Community tab, because YouTube hasn’t built the API surface that would allow it.
The realistic automation path runs the other direction: RSS feeds exist for YouTube channels themselves (every channel has one, listing recent video uploads), which tools like PostRSS can watch and use to auto-post about new videos to Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and other supported networks the moment a video goes live. That’s a genuinely useful, fully-supported workflow — it just flows out of YouTube to other platforms, not a text update into YouTube’s own Community tab.
If Community posts specifically matter to your channel strategy, the only path today is posting them manually through YouTube Studio — there’s no automation shortcut, official or unofficial, worth trusting for this specific format. Channels that want their video releases to also drive a Community-style announcement typically handle the video upload announcement automatically elsewhere (social platforms via RSS) and post the Community update by hand as a separate, deliberate step.
Every YouTube channel publishes a public feed of its latest uploads at an address in this form: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC…, where the last part is your channel ID. You paste that address into PostRSS as a source, exactly as you would a blog feed. PostRSS checks it as often as every minute, and each new video is posted with its thumbnail and link, so the announcement shows the real video image rather than a bare URL.
You do not need access to YouTube Studio or any extra permission for this part. The feed is public, and PostRSS only reads it; the publishing happens on the networks you connect as targets.
A video announcement works best when it reads naturally on the network where it appears. PostRSS offers nine message formats built from the item title, the item description, the page title or your own static text. A common setup is the video title alone on X, and the title followed by a short static line such as “New video on our channel” on a Facebook Page or in a Telegram channel.
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utm_source=postrss, so your analytics shows which network sent viewers to the video.The same channel feed can post to several targets at once, each with its own settings. A Facebook Page is available on every plan, including Free, which makes it an easy first test. Telegram channels, Bluesky and Mastodon are included on every plan, Discord from Start, Threads from Professional and X from Professional Plus, and team chats such as Google Chat or Mattermost can carry announcements for internal audiences. The full list of sources and destinations is on the integrations page, and plan details are on the pricing page. For a complete walkthrough, see how to turn new YouTube videos into automatic social posts.
In practice, channels that care about both the Community tab and their other networks split the work: the feed handles every announcement outside YouTube automatically, and the Community post is written by hand once the video is live. Because the automatic part no longer needs attention, the manual Community update becomes a single short task per video, and it can say something the automatic posts do not, such as a behind-the-scenes note or a poll about the next topic.
If you also run a blog, the two feeds complement each other. Point PostRSS at the channel feed for video announcements and at the blog feed for articles, and route each to the targets where it fits. A video that is embedded in a new blog post will then not be announced twice by accident, as long as you decide which of the two feeds carries it to each network and use keyword filters to keep the other one quiet.
There’s no announced plan to do so as of now. YouTube’s API has expanded over time, but Community posts have remained outside it through every update so far — there’s no reliable signal this is coming.
Not through YouTube directly, but you can build your own reminder: watching your own channel’s video RSS feed with a tool like PostRSS and using that as a trigger for other automated posts still leaves the Community post itself as a manual, deliberate action.
Not one worth trusting for a channel you depend on — YouTube’s automated-session detection is aggressive, and the risk to a channel in good standing generally isn’t worth whatever time a workaround might save on an occasional text update.
Auto-posting to a YouTube Community post from an RSS feed isn’t possible today, for any tool, because YouTube’s API doesn’t expose that capability — not a gap PostRSS or any competitor can close. What is fully automatable is the reverse: turning new YouTube uploads into automatic posts on other platforms via your channel’s own RSS feed.
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