Data Hoarder

Greetings ye, I still am lamenting the long-ago deletion of that “Ed, Edd, n’ Eddy” video, in which “Nigh of Fire” is synchronized onto the film’s opening vehicle-chase; such was the means that I was formally introduced into Euro’beat. -__-

~Waz

I've set up "Tube Archivist" and don't regret it whatsoever. Automatically scans my playlists or channels I add at the times I set the cron to. It's still somewhat in early development and the cookie-parsing doesn't work half the time for me sadly, tho I seem to be one of just a few cases who have this issue.

It's a game-changer when it comes to archiving :) It even saves subtitles, comments and SponsorBlock timestamps.

A user upscaled Britney Spear music videos using AI.

Care to share ? :D

I have 10-12 channels I back up. I have a windows task schedule to run YT-DLP every 12 hours on each channel and they are spaced out as much as I can so there is as little overlap as possible and the ones that do are the ones that done update regularly.

I (finally!) installed Tube Archivist last week and went through my library of already archived YT videos and saved them manually in TA (it’s the easiest way if you haven’t saved the metadata to go with the video, which I hadn’t for the oldest videos). Out of almost 1000 videos over five years or so, maybe 5% have gone private or is gone from YT. And it was mostly videos I really wanted to keep. Now comes the dirty work of trying to find the metadata for those missing videos since I do have them locally. I have done some research around how to do it, but if anyone has actually figured it out it would be nice to know!

You can import Youtube playlists into Jdownloader and download for example your "Liked Videos". You can also use "Google Takeout" to export all you files, playlists and history to CSV.

A really prolific chill music channel called Quantum Foam Sounds recently bit the dust, taking tons of obscure albums with unique art made by the channel with it. Fortunately the admin of the channel posted about a week earlier about what might be coming down the line, and I grabbed all the ones that were important to me (like, seriously, some of them have become things I HAVE to listen to at least once a week.)

My yt-dlp is running most nights, but I've gotta stop... I'm never going to get around to watching everything.

Could you share the Britney Spears??? :)

They say there’s a server with everything on it. I don’t know if it’s true but I hear a lot about google just hoarding everything. I assume most of the big companies have offset archives in storage for that later day. They keep them private for reasons. Unlocking them takes skill, guidance, and friendships. You won’t get into any of those rich peoples servers without some clean tea bargaining that’s for sure. S as though some of us are crazy enough to just convince them to open up the whole thing in just a few sweet ledgers of conversation. Call it human instinct. But it’s true. We’re all just people on this world. If the ends meet, well, maybe we’ll just get all that data we’ve been asking for and get to have a drunken party afterwards! Ya know? Anyways…good luck!

it's just such a shame that yt liked playlist got completely privated some years ago so you can't automatically download everything

Way too much stuff is disappearing these days, my archive has over 200k videos that have been removed from YouTube

or me casualty saving music I like into a playlist, revisitng it a year later

"57 tracks that are no longer available are hidden"

Indeed, so many videos I took for granted disappeared later. Max the storage, max the network speed... hoard everything!

Sigh, I used to. But have run out of storage space. I'm feeling very anxious.

I did analysis of my liked videos, based on Google Takeout and 10% of my liked videos are gone.

On the other side I would not watch them again anyways. I just backup important stuff.

Sooner or later all these streaming first movies and shows that had zero physical release will start to go missing or in limbo when these companies go under and people will wonder where they can find them.

I know a lot of the shows I enjoy watching on netflix will be gone someday unless I start backing them up now.

I basically throw every YT video I watch into TubeArchivist. The browser extension makes this a single click. Currently have over 5TB of YT videos saved, including whole channels.

I learned this one the hard way. I am an NBA fan and YouTube used to be a bastion of full games from 80 - early 2000s.

I started archiving, but then the Last Dance happened and the NBA scrubbed the Internet of all old full games.

I got half way through backing up all the 90s bulls championships before the purge and it still bugs me.

Wow, a Koh-Lanta reference outside of r/survivor. Not something I expected.

It's TF1 (one), not TFI :crying:

I've done similarly, RedLetterMedia, some of my fav streamers and long plays, Gaki no Tsukai - and recently DnD streams. If I'm on my PC at least, I play the videos straight from youtube as a means of support to the channels, but any other time? I've got my copies on a loop.

Had been using Tartube and I never delved deep into youtube-dl cmd prompts. Recently it seems to have issue downloading the highest available quality, but I'm beginning to not care as much most of the time, I just rip it to a lo bit rate mp3 to listen to when I'm driving, cooking, w/e. Most of the time, the content I have is very conducive to just audio only.

Ahhh the good ole' days of a studio producing all the season's on DVD content and manufacturing it en mass. What a time!

My thing is I just want something to watch my personal playlists/ favorites and save them so I never have that "this video was removed" problem again.

However, I don't know what can do it. I tried TubeArchivist and another one using their Docker containers in my Unraid server but it doesn't really do what I'm trying.

We need a torrent site just for these.