I\'ve found a great tutorial on how to accomplish most of the work at:
https://www.developphp.com/video/PHP/simpleXML-Tutorial-Learn-to-Parse-XML-Files-and-RSS-Feeds
Simple example for newbs like me:
$url = "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCwNPPl_oX8oUtKVMLxL13jg";
$rss = simplexml_load_file($url);
foreach($rss->entry as $item) {
$time = $item->published;
$time = date('Y-m-d \ H:i', strtotime($time));
$media_group = $item->children( 'media', true );
$title = $media_group->group->title;
$description = $media_group->group->description;
$views = $media_group->group->community->statistics->attributes()['views'];
}
echo $time . ' :: ' . $title . '
' . $description . '
' . $views . '
';