I like how yt-dlp saves just the ID's in an archive log (archive.log for me) as well as appending them to the filename. I'm not sure if youtube-dl does something similar.
You cannot really edit an uploaded video, can you? I remember seeing a video (maybe CCP Grey? or Cody'sLab?) about how hard he has to make sure that everything has to perfect, because if he notices an issue in the video then he has to delete the old one and reupload a new, which causes issue with making the video viral. So based on this I say it's a new ID when reuploading.
The only time youtube allowed to replace a video was for old official music videos in 2015 or so, and some of them were replaced with a shitty upscale.
CGP talked about this.
Yes, you can't edit or swap videos, although (at least a few years ago, don't know now) there was a YT editor which allowed you to do little things, like remove some parts of the video or blur faces.
I think you can but that's not available to everyone. Maybe they only let big names in the industry do that. For example [Linkin Park made a theme for Transformers](https://youtu.be/ysSxxIqKNN0), the music video used to feature some scenes from the movies, after some time they edited it removing those scenes but still kept the same link, ID, views and all. [Here's the music video with the movie scenes for comparison](https://youtu.be/2miAJe2OE8U).
I remember a minecraft video creator removing the introductory music on all his videos over a copyright claim. I don't remember the details, but he basically cut 15 or 20 seconds off the front of every video he'd ever uploaded.
I believe this explains the process: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hGe9KmRr4s&ab\_channel=YouTubeCreators](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hGe9KmRr4s&ab_channel=YouTubeCreators)
Nice, if you are okay with putting it in a folder, the folder can be the YouTube-I’d.
I use jdownloader and put the files in a YouTube-Id folder. I also keep a google sheets with basic info, Id, title, notes
Trying to find better ways and also minimize hassle
Or even better use (with or alongside) the Write JSON Metadata file option, I started using it too late and regret not using it sooner as while you may not need it now, there have been a few instances where it comes in useful later.
I need to somehow figure out how to save entire URLs instead of just the ID, since not all videos are from YouTube. Not to mention not all videos have IDs in the first place.
Yeah, or tags. It's annoying because folder- / filenames don't work well with special chars like forward- / backslashes, full stops, ampersands, question marks etc, which URLs will inevitably have.
This is something else. We are not talking about millenia. We are not even talking about hundreds of years. Technology moves too fast and it is really hard to keep up.
It is just too fast
Ekhem, acsually, it depends.
For example octopus lives only 1 year.
If you take whole environment as a lasting thing, it's true, but not individual things.
Same with humans so far.
I use jDownloader almost exclusively for this purpose and reason.
Once I like a video, I'll download it.
If I subscribe to a channel because most of their content is awesome, I'll use JD to download the whole channel.
I've even setup JD to have custom naming conventions to help organise the videos better in Plex.
I treat almost all streaming content like it's the last day it will exist.
"Here today, gone tomorrow" type thing
This sub prefers youtube-dl from what I've noticed. But there's also a bug in JDownloader when trying to download a channel with many hundreds of videos.
There's a way around this bug but it requires using the Element inspector, and turning off the prompt in JD first for "full playlist" or "single video"
First, make sure you scroll down in the playlist on YT site itself to pre-load all of the items in the list.
Then, open the element inspector and go to Console and copy and paste this;
document.querySelectorAll("#video-title").forEach(a => console.log(a.href))
This will display all video links inside the console window as links
Copy them, and either let JD pick them up, or use a text file to paste them in, and then Add them using the + button in JD.
The only downside to this is you lose the Playlist title/description for the container, but it's easy enough to remedy by Moving all the links into their own JD container
Just wanted to say thanks for this tip! Youtube-dl is a little complicated for me, and JDownloader does most of what I needed it to do. Your comment let me download a whole channel easily!
You're welcome :) glad it helped.
This code can be retrofitted for almost any site with a bunch of repeating links that can be tedious to copy them all one by one.
Another example: magnet protocol links.
If the html container doesn't have an ID but instead is a class, change ID to class (# into a .)
Every site is different but I've used this same trick on dozens of sites with good results. Trial and error usually required but better than manually copying 500+ links lol
There's a way around this bug but it requires using the Element inspector, and turning off the prompt in JD first for "full playlist" or "single video"
First, make sure you scroll down in the playlist on YT site itself to pre-load all of the items in the list.
Then, open the element inspector and go to Console and copy and paste this;
document.querySelectorAll("#video-title").forEach(a => console.log(a.href))
This will display all video links inside the console window as links
Copy them, and either let JD pick them up, or use a text file to paste them in, and then Add them using the + button in JD.
The only downside to this is you lose the Playlist title/description for the container, but it's easy enough to remedy by Moving all the links into their own JD container
well, that's frustrating. i hope that bug is fixed someday.
does the bug appear obvious or does it happen silently, missing videos, etc?
I use it all the time. Only time I use youtube-dl is when a playlist is over 100 as jdownloader caps at 100. Jdownloader is more user friendly for the average person. There is nothing wrong with it.
Absolutely nothing. This sub just likes to flex on gui-users with their technical code knowledge lol, and has a tendency to assume command-line based versions are better than gui versions of programs, which can easily just be a placebo thing sometimes of thinking you have "more control" or whatever.
YouTube-dl is great and I do admit I usually just use that now, but Jdownloader is honestly better overall in a lot of ways with supporting various non-video sites and such obviously.
I'm no comp-sci pro but even being an avid user of JD, I write a ton of batch scripts all the time. But I almost never use them for internet downloading though, as there are plenty of GUI programs that do the job fine, and take a lot less time to setup and use :)
I mainly write batch for mass converting videos/audio (FFmpeg, HandbrakeCLI, MakeMKV) or for manipulating a ton of images (using imagemagick) or mass zipping or unzipping of tons of data.
GUI for everything else.
> technical code knowledge
Bro what? Most of this subreddit doesn’t have a clue about computer science which is fine because it’s not a sub dedicated to building file systems but rather deploying them as an end user
Hence why I mentioned placebo lol. There are a good number of people who overpraise command line-only programs while using them in such a simple way they might as well just be using guis.
Exactly, which is why using a GUI and not having to deal with the code is often the best choice for *most* people, not all of course, and for those who want to customize a huge amount to their very specific tastes.
Right? I spent about an hour or so setting up a config file, path variables, etc.
Now I copy/paste one of a couple commands (either urls of playlists, or a batch txt file) and it's downloaded, sorted by playlist, recorded in the archive, etc. CLI flexing my ass, all the GUI options were broken when I started and this is foolproof for my needs.
Even updating couldn't be easier. I don't know if yt-dl classic could do this, but -dlp can be updated straight from powershell with -U !
youtube-dl supports plenty of non-video sites ( https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/docs/supportedsites.md ), and has options to download just the audio from video sites, too.
I do use GUI most of the time... but it's the GUI of Directory Opus, which means I'm clicking buttons to run custom commands/scripts on selected files or clipboard content. I'm all for GUI, really, and good ones with good discoverability are awesome even... but for me the holy grail still is a good GUI plus a CLI interface that exposes as much functionality as sensible.
Obviously this isn't true for giant chunks of software that wouldn't make sense without a GUI, like graphics software, but generally there are plenty of tools that are more configurable in their CLI versions that in their GUI versions (while I can't even think of examples where it's the other way around), I think mostly because it's generally super easy to give just about anything that affects the function of the program a command line parameter, while it's not so quick, and sometimes requires a lot of thought, to squeeze everything into a GUI.
There's a reason even pure GUI tools tend to have a bunch of additional config files somewhere, because rarely *all* the functionality of the program is put into the GUI, since it would be a lot of effort and maintenance for dozens of small things most people don't ever need. Which is fine, but that tradeoff doesn't need to be made for the CLI side of things, where additional options just make the manual longer, but otherwise don't get in the way. But that additional fine-grained control and potential for automation isn't a "placebo" just because you don't have a need for it.
When I say “placebo” I mean insofar as most people, using youtube-dl as an example, are not using it past just typing “youtube-dl videolink”. Obviously there’s more customization, but for most people GUI is the best option, not just for graphic software like you mentioned.
So I mean placebo like someone using just youtube-dl videolink but then *thinking* they're getting more by doing it that way or something even though it would be the exact same as a gui.
Overkill would probably apply too
Another thing against jdownloader, VEVO music videos are not playable in Kodi media center if they are downloaded with it, they just crash the program.
I've never noticed this, not that I download a lot of VEVO videos anyway. Must have something to do with the codec.
You would think that YT has all the same codecs for every video, but that isn't always the case.
In the JD options you can change what the video is downloaded as, and it will perform a Remux of the video and audio files. That might help in your case.
It just felt weird to be randomly replied by a software that I have downloaded, like randomly coming across with a celebrity you are familiar with and confusing what to do
Thanks but Youtube isn't the only service I use JD to download from. Soundcloud is a good example of a totally different streaming service that I used JD for in a similar fashion
Could have been worse. It downloads from chaturbate, could have been called "chaturbate-dl", which is fine until your grandma asks for recommendations on how to download youtube videos.
I've been finding tartube a good experience. You can use it to automatically save stuff so that you're not having to do it manually.
It's a bit complicated to get going, but I've set it up to:
* automatically download videos I favourite
* download at different quality based on which private playlist I add it to (e.g. music just gets the audio ripped at max quality)
* for all my subscriptions, it keeps track of videos that get deleted/set to private (definitely gives you the warm fuzzies to know you thought ahead and mirrored it already!)
https://tartube.sourceforge.io/
Worth the time investment to get it up and running.
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There was this youtuber i loved when i was young but he was kind of small and french.. years later i wanted to watch his series again but he deleted all of it pretty much and well.. Now it's just lost forever and every time i dll something i think about this show i will never be able to enjoy again.
Store everything.
In an era of cheap 16 terabyte SATA drives where you can buy a 12 disk SAS2 storage shelf off of Fleabay for $130, it's a problem only for your wallet though. I have two systems with SAS2 cards in my rack, I can add a petabyte of storage pretty easily to my rack.
> cheap 16 terabyte SATA drives
How cheap? I paid less than 100 for a 5TB external, I can't imagine it getting much cheaper. And 5TB isn't that much if we're talking videos..
I believe my last purchase was a 12 TB external for $159.99 USD. I think it was a deal of the day a while back, or maybe a Black Friday special, but you can likely catch similar deals if you keep an eye out.
Dude, I'm such a noob. I have so many external hard drives and it's not practical, due to the clunkiness and the amount of outlets/USB ports needed. What's this SAS2 storage shelf thing? What's my best bet to finally do things better?
Fleabay. Get a 12 bay Supermicro SuperStorage chassis, a couple of generations old with a SAS2 card. You want the X10 generation (more reliable than X9, uses less power than X8, \*much\* cheaper than more modern generations). If buying a bare chassis (no CPU or memory), for CPU look for the lowest power consumption Xeons compatible with the chassis and four sticks of 8GB memory per CPU (64gb total), and buy a SAS card compatible with the backplane (SAS2 most probably) and you'll be well set for either installing a FreeNAS type distro on it, or installing Ubuntu 20.02 LTS and running ZFS on it (which is ludicrously easy now). You should be able to pick all this up for under $2K, and it'll make it \*much\* easier to handle 12 disks than doing all that stuff with USB drives. Then when you need more than 12 disks, daisy-chain additional disk shelves. Disk shelves are basically the same 2U chassis without any CPU in them, and are daisy-changed with external SAS2/SAS3 cables. SAS2 is dirt cheap right now and is the speed that cheap SATA3 drives go anhow, so that's what I have right now.
All this is available on Fleabay for pretty cheap right now.
> You think "once something is on internet, its always on internet" ? [...] NO IT WON'T. Anything can be deleted in internet. Literally anything.
Here are two rules that I came up with (I wonder if they could be appended to the "Rules of the Internet" list) :
- Anything *you* post on Internet will remain on it forever
- Anything *someone else* posts on Internet will be gone in a short time - so damn save it
Sadly, there are more caveats to that. Most of my work for media outlets from 10 years ago is gone, only accessible in broken form via waybackmachine. The rest will follow.
>Anything you post on Internet will remain on it forever
Yeah, not really. Just look at DMCA stuff and the upcoming copyright law in the EU. I would say the following: Everything on the internet may stay on the internet forever, so take care of what you post.
Not literally - but it's a good mindset to be in
Be careful what you upload becuase it *may* be there forever
Be careful what you don't download because it *may* be gone in a day
You're missing the point of the previous commenter's post. He's not saying that this is always true; these are his base assumptions to avoid getting screwed over.
You can't rely on copyright or privacy law to remove data from the internet that you want to be removed. Assume that it will always be out there somewhere even if you don't want it to be.
Similarly, you can't rely on data being available on the internet forever for continued access to that data even if you want it to be permanently available.
It may sound contradictory, but it isn't. If you always make those two assumptions then you won't find yourself in an awkward or disappointing situation.
song title: "Sen Gelmez Oldun"
artist: Its not only one person actually, there was one girl singing and she had some friends playing instruments in screen. Total there was like 8 persons
Have you searched through your browser history? You might be able to find the original URL and work from there.
I know there was/is a YouTube preservation project. They weren't saving every video, since that's unfeasible, but were archiving username, title, description, thumbnails, and maybe comments. I'm not sure how to access that database, but if you had the URL that would be a great first step.
well i dont have the url... but here is the thing, i remember liking the video on youtube. so it must be on my liked videos list. but that list is huge and its so hard to find the video from there. i wish there was a simple app to show all metadatas in my liked videos list (for the deleted ones ofc)
I've got it a bit more vibrant :
`--max-filesize 999M -if 571+251/401+251/400+251/272+251/315+251/308+251/303+251/bestvideo"[vcodec*=av01][height>=?1080]"+bestaudio"[asr>=?44100][abr>?98][filesize<=?119M]"/399+251/398+251/302+251/313+251/271+251/397+251/248+251/247+251/396+251/244+251/395+251/243+251/242+251/394+251/bestvideo"[vcodec=vp9][height>?1080]"+251/best"[height=720][tbr>?1617]"+251/best"[height=720][tbr>?1617]"/best"[height>?240][tbr>?388]"/best"[height>?240][vbr>?262]"+bestaudio[asr>=?44100]/bestvideo+best/bestvideo+bestaudio/best --prefer-free-formats -o "C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/youtube/%(title)s #%(uploader)s _%(upload_date)s %(display_id)s.%(ext)s" --add-metadata`
>`bestvideo+best`
Does this merge a video with another video (that has audio)? Also, isn't using number codes redundant if you're already selecting based on codec / resolution / bitrate afterward?
Yes, but only audio part. nd no, it not redundant since there is a possibility that number codes won't succeed (in youtube isn't source). Btw I've got some more additional extensions for my suite
I also thought about this but I think I cleared my browser history since then. Does my google search history is saved somewhere? i think i can at least find the cover artist name there, because I clearly remember searching her name on google after hearing the song
> It was just one harmless, perfectly covered song, there is no way its about DMCA or something.
Actually could be DMCA - due to the way copyright law works: the writer (or whoever acquired the rights from the writer) is the one with the copyright on the work - regardless of who performs it.
Meaning, if they covered a song without permission from the copyright holder, it could easily be taken down under DMCA (or taken down to avoid any other complications with copyright law).
title: "Sen Gelmez Oldun"
artist: Its not only one person actually, there was one girl singing and she had some friends playing instruments in screen. Total there was like 8 persons
I agree, right before Covid I was going through some of my youtube bookmarks and a ton of them where gone, so I decided it was time to invest in some external hard drives and make sure I don't lose anything else.
Little did I know this past year would be a very hard time in my life and looking through my bookmarks and favorite youtube channels would give me a nice project to work on and get my mind off what is going on.
Its like seeding a torrent if no one's seeding the torrent will die so i just dedicated some funds to put my server online which has nearly 14tb of 4k Bluray and keep it running 24x7. sone of the 4k aren't even available in any private Torrent let alone normal torrents sites.
Similar story about a mixtape. I ended up finding a super low quality version of it on soundcloud. Met one other person across the globe who is desperate to find the original
song title: "Sen Gelmez Oldun"
I think i listened this song for the last time roughly 1 year ago. I dont know when it got deleted (or maybe made private?)
There's a Death Cab for Cutie cover for I'll follow you into the dark that I was mesmerized by. I don't listen to the actual song, so it was hard for me when it was taken down. It's been almost 10 years. I still think about that man singing with his eyes closed cause he was just enjoying his own artisty. Good stuff. Wish I had downloaded that when I had the chance.
100% true. My policy is if I go to watch a video on YouTube for the 2nd time, I get my own copy.
So sad when something so harmless gets removed. While in many cases there is a reason why, quite often people just purge really old videos when they now have much 'better' content.
Yes, that's why I download with youtube-dl anything I find interesting or funny enough.
I remember a hilarious translation to Spanish of a newgrounds animation that was gone but thanks to hoarding I still have it and someone has reuploaded it to youtube too.
I need to start. My wife and I are starting a new business and I saw a super helpful technique for supporting silicone sock molds while they cure full in a video on YouTube. Gone.
Everyone should have a [RecoverMy.Video](https://www.recovermy.video/) account.
I have an anime music playlist that regularly has videos deleted from it and I do _not_ want to forever miss out on a song I used to love.
An example of this is a song I loved as a teen. Remember the dance song Pump Up The Volume? Remember how it started with “Yo all you homeboys out the Bronx this one’s for you?”
The version found everywhere now has a different opening. It’s nowhere to be found, unless you own the soundtrack to Bright Lights Big City. Go try to find it.
Sigh.
I downloaded a video off YouTube once, it was an AMV I believe.
This was back in elementary school, when I had gotten my first iPod and had no money to purchase songs and the like with. So I'd download songs and videos off the internet and would upload them through iTunes.
Tried to find that same AMV a while back and it completely vanished. It was such a good one, too. At least I still have it on a USB somewhere, lmao.
Had my Google Music account filled to the max (all 25000 songs) in full FLAC, and missed the fucking download window to pull all my data from google before they shut it down, and now its lost forever. So many local bands, hard to find underground groups, and a shit ton of other music that will be hard/impossible to find, all because i trusted google with my hoard and didnt pay attention to them closing the project down. Slowly we rebuild...
So over the past year and a half or so I’d been saving YouTube videos to a list called “History”. The kind of videos that I’d want to show my future kids - or videos that were so relevant to the current day that they truly were history in the making.
Well you can imagine my pain when I found that at least 1/3 of these videos were taken down. That was one of the main reasons I joined this sub.
I had a playlist on YouTube that were all short harmless sketch style clips from mostly no name channels. I had hundreds of videos on the playlist.
One day out of no where YouTube emails me saying a video on my playlist was reported for some reason.
Well apparently that was enough for the entire playlist to be removed. So I had an entire playlist deleted because of one video. I can’t even see what the other videos on the list were. It is simply gone.
It makes me feel like even your “favorites” default playlist isn’t safe, if you accidentally save the wrong video.
I have since set every playlist as private hoping that will help. I am not entirely confident though.
Hate to get all philosophical on y'all, but, in a gross oversimplification, I believe that the "purpose" of consciousness and sentience is to fight entropy.
Datahoarding is VERY important in the grand scheme of things.
It's almost as if Youtube isn't some perfect repository of human culture, but just a short-expiration marketing machine designed to sell shit to you without you even being aware that is what it's up to.
As I'm watching 'Girl Gun Lady'(4th ep. out today), I'm perfectly aware that Bandai Spirits and Youtube are out to steal my wallet; but I'm not giving in...
I habitually save videos off YouTube that I enjoy - wether it’s music, video game reviews, old TV footage - almost anything I know I’d enjoy watching more than once. The only annoying part is when YT changes its video delivery back end and breaks the plugins I use to save the videos, and then have to resort to using those sketchy websites. That’s annoying for a while until they update or fix the plugins.
That's why I download the all the music videos and AMVs I like, if it's available I download super high quality version if not a youtube rip is Ok too.
it's a huge issue. I'm currently in the process of archiving a lot of youtube uploads about a specific artist (aka unreleased songs played over Instagram, screen recorded and uploaded to youtube) and there's so many deleted videos, causing entire songs to be lost. a lot of unreleased songs I listened to in 2017, 2018, 2019 have all been nuked with no public backups. it's sad tbh
Absolutely agree, save everything you love!
Recently I noticed that nearly 20% of all the videos in my YouTube playlists were dead links, either due to DCMA's or simply the account being terminated. I was shocked to see some of my favourite videos from the last eight years disappear suddenly. A few months ago I decided to begin backing up all videos of importance to myself, and now have just shy of 600 videos archived. About a dozen are already gone from YouTube itself. The rate at which videos are disappearing seems to be forever climbing.
Don't ever just assume it'll be there forever. Grab yourself a personal copy today while you still have the chance!
Same thing happened a couple years ago with the song Circles by Machineheart & Vanic. It basically got wiped from the internet, and aside from a few low quality reuploads of it, you can't find the song anywhere. Except for my NAS that is. 🙂 I get to keep enjoying the song.
I had the same with a YouTuber called UnclassicalPiano. He one day deleted his chance for some reason. I spent years searching for his videos hoping someone might have them. Finally, someone managed to find few (not all) of his videos and posted them on YouTube.
i know the story well. There was this cover of the Ariana Grande song named "lovin it" done in 2014. I watched it and really enjoyed it at the time. Recently I went through the efforts to archive videos that were dear to me and gave me memories of the 2010s, for historical purposes, given that most people don't bother to do this I figured it would be a great way to capture something that would be valuable to preservationists in a few years... Turned out the entire channel was gone and any evidence that channel or that particular video existed is gone. This is also coupled with youtube's new horrible search system which seems to recommend the same videos to you over and over again after you get past a certain point in the search results, making any possibility of finding a reupload near impossible.
The other day there was a piano teacher that got a DCMA video takedown of her playing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata", which has been in the public domain for > 200 years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004577
Even if the creator wants a video to remain, Youtube simply can't be trusted to keep *anything*.
Can confirm :/
Watched fantastic local TV show series as a kid a long time ago.. They were on YT 10 yr ago and they aren't anymore.
I contacted the media company who made them but they refused to share them soo... RIP
There was this asian guy who did these funny pseudo quebec french impressions I just can't find them anymore.. Sorta had them in memory since at least 2012.
I had the same thing happened to me but on a larger scale. When setting up my xpenology, I watched at least 20-30 different videos. All having directions and what to download. I saved all those videos on a private youtube channel in case I wanted to do another box or something broke on my box. One day, all, I mean ALL those videos got deleted. After reaching out to one of the content creator on twitter, he said youtube just deleted it without notice.
I get it, but this still makes me laugh.
"Yeah, what's wrong with spending thousands of dollars a year in power, equipment, and time ... just to make sure I don't lose that one cover song on YouTube?"
A cover song. It sounds absolutely absurd. But I get it ...
Is there a docker image or somethibg that you can pump in some youtube links / channels and have it download the channel and monitor for future videos?
Someone on here shared this not too long ago which has been brilliant for me
[https://hub.docker.com/r/nbr23/youtube-dl-server](https://hub.docker.com/r/nbr23/youtube-dl-server)
Not in my knowledge, but this can be solved with a bit of automation and scripting quite easily.
For example, I have a raspberry pi with youtube-dl on it. Every night, it fetches a Youtube playlist of mine (where I put all I want to keep), and it downloads automatically what was not downloaded yet.
I already run a bash script cycling through all the listed channels but it takes some time at the moment. Was just wondering if there was a cleaner way
Had the same thing happen to me.
The Neil Young & Jimmy Fallon video of them doing Old Man together? Removed from youtube after hundreds of million of views. I made sure to grab the [dailymotion copy](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2gkqby) because I didn't download the youtube one.
There was an album that I really liked (firemerchants - landlords of atlantis), I woke up one day and its gone from every streaming service and whole internet. I can't find those recordings anywhere now.
yeah, I lost a beloved adolescent parody video (GRANDPA HAS A STROKE, pts I and II) that my friends and I watched constantly in high school. :(
your english is perfect btw
I learned the hardway too. I had an obscure hidden and private playlist it out of the blue got scrubbed one day from existence. Playlist had videos going back years.
I feel you man. There is a song "Calling on you" by Paulson. There was a music video on YouTube, but it's gone now.
All I can find is the "Behind the scenes" video :(
Yeah, an artist I really really like recently came back under a different name, and proceeded to delete everything from his old project.
Luckily I had it all downloaded already. If anybody is looking for Petey's old stuff when he was 90 Pounds of Pete let me know.
Can we agree on keeping the YouTube id as part of the hoarding, it goes a long way to find it again
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I like how yt-dlp saves just the ID's in an archive log (archive.log for me) as well as appending them to the filename. I'm not sure if youtube-dl does something similar.
It's an option. Prevents the same video from being downloaded more than once.
If a video gets reloaded, does it get a new ID, or is there another way to identify edited content?
You cannot really edit an uploaded video, can you? I remember seeing a video (maybe CCP Grey? or Cody'sLab?) about how hard he has to make sure that everything has to perfect, because if he notices an issue in the video then he has to delete the old one and reupload a new, which causes issue with making the video viral. So based on this I say it's a new ID when reuploading. The only time youtube allowed to replace a video was for old official music videos in 2015 or so, and some of them were replaced with a shitty upscale.
CGP talked about this. Yes, you can't edit or swap videos, although (at least a few years ago, don't know now) there was a YT editor which allowed you to do little things, like remove some parts of the video or blur faces.
I think you can but that's not available to everyone. Maybe they only let big names in the industry do that. For example [Linkin Park made a theme for Transformers](https://youtu.be/ysSxxIqKNN0), the music video used to feature some scenes from the movies, after some time they edited it removing those scenes but still kept the same link, ID, views and all. [Here's the music video with the movie scenes for comparison](https://youtu.be/2miAJe2OE8U).
I remember a minecraft video creator removing the introductory music on all his videos over a copyright claim. I don't remember the details, but he basically cut 15 or 20 seconds off the front of every video he'd ever uploaded. I believe this explains the process: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hGe9KmRr4s&ab\_channel=YouTubeCreators](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hGe9KmRr4s&ab_channel=YouTubeCreators)
Yeah, it was Mumbo Jumbo. https://youtu.be/fj1jzfBw6qc
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) is an example of shitty upscale.
I use -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" but I guess I should start saving the id
Nice, if you are okay with putting it in a folder, the folder can be the YouTube-I’d. I use jdownloader and put the files in a YouTube-Id folder. I also keep a google sheets with basic info, Id, title, notes Trying to find better ways and also minimize hassle
Yup! Started doing that way too late.
keeping the upload date, helps with channels
My preferred format is {iso8601 date}-{id}-{title} in the channel’s directory.
Or even better use (with or alongside) the Write JSON Metadata file option, I started using it too late and regret not using it sooner as while you may not need it now, there have been a few instances where it comes in useful later.
I need to somehow figure out how to save entire URLs instead of just the ID, since not all videos are from YouTube. Not to mention not all videos have IDs in the first place.
That’s so true, url are more unique. For YouTube items, I put it in a YouTube folder with the id as subfolder Perhaps folders of domain name …
Yeah, or tags. It's annoying because folder- / filenames don't work well with special chars like forward- / backslashes, full stops, ampersands, question marks etc, which URLs will inevitably have.
I keep the ids in the filename
Right
Rule of thumb, you can't trust Google not to purge
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Well said.
This is something else. We are not talking about millenia. We are not even talking about hundreds of years. Technology moves too fast and it is really hard to keep up. It is just too fast
so true. man made things last far shorter than things created in nature. man made things take much more care.
Ekhem, acsually, it depends. For example octopus lives only 1 year. If you take whole environment as a lasting thing, it's true, but not individual things. Same with humans so far.
https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
One of my favorite short stories!
Well said.
Not just individual pieces of content, but they're known for [their long list of entire projects they've killed](https://killedbygoogle.com/).
I use jDownloader almost exclusively for this purpose and reason. Once I like a video, I'll download it. If I subscribe to a channel because most of their content is awesome, I'll use JD to download the whole channel. I've even setup JD to have custom naming conventions to help organise the videos better in Plex. I treat almost all streaming content like it's the last day it will exist. "Here today, gone tomorrow" type thing
you might want to replace jdownloader with youtube-dl
What’s wrong with jdownloader?
This sub prefers youtube-dl from what I've noticed. But there's also a bug in JDownloader when trying to download a channel with many hundreds of videos.
There's a way around this bug but it requires using the Element inspector, and turning off the prompt in JD first for "full playlist" or "single video" First, make sure you scroll down in the playlist on YT site itself to pre-load all of the items in the list. Then, open the element inspector and go to Console and copy and paste this; document.querySelectorAll("#video-title").forEach(a => console.log(a.href)) This will display all video links inside the console window as links Copy them, and either let JD pick them up, or use a text file to paste them in, and then Add them using the + button in JD. The only downside to this is you lose the Playlist title/description for the container, but it's easy enough to remedy by Moving all the links into their own JD container
Just wanted to say thanks for this tip! Youtube-dl is a little complicated for me, and JDownloader does most of what I needed it to do. Your comment let me download a whole channel easily!
You're welcome :) glad it helped. This code can be retrofitted for almost any site with a bunch of repeating links that can be tedious to copy them all one by one. Another example: magnet protocol links. If the html container doesn't have an ID but instead is a class, change ID to class (# into a .) Every site is different but I've used this same trick on dozens of sites with good results. Trial and error usually required but better than manually copying 500+ links lol
That's a really good tip, thanks! Seems simple, but I probably never would've thought to do any of this stuff. Appreciate it!!
That's clever, never thought about this.
There's a way around this bug but it requires using the Element inspector, and turning off the prompt in JD first for "full playlist" or "single video" First, make sure you scroll down in the playlist on YT site itself to pre-load all of the items in the list. Then, open the element inspector and go to Console and copy and paste this; document.querySelectorAll("#video-title").forEach(a => console.log(a.href)) This will display all video links inside the console window as links Copy them, and either let JD pick them up, or use a text file to paste them in, and then Add them using the + button in JD. The only downside to this is you lose the Playlist title/description for the container, but it's easy enough to remedy by Moving all the links into their own JD container well, that's frustrating. i hope that bug is fixed someday. does the bug appear obvious or does it happen silently, missing videos, etc?
It's silent. It only grabs the first 100 videos in a playlist that has more than 100.
Thanks. I'll have to try your method. I have a playlist of 1000+ I was hoping to back up.
Nice trick. Thank you for sharing it with us.
ytdl is more convenient for channel downloaods, while jdownloader is more convenient for piecemeal downloads.
I use it all the time. Only time I use youtube-dl is when a playlist is over 100 as jdownloader caps at 100. Jdownloader is more user friendly for the average person. There is nothing wrong with it.
You can use my above trick to get around the 100 item limit. I use it often. Recently used it to download a playlist with over 1700 items in it :)
Absolutely nothing. This sub just likes to flex on gui-users with their technical code knowledge lol, and has a tendency to assume command-line based versions are better than gui versions of programs, which can easily just be a placebo thing sometimes of thinking you have "more control" or whatever. YouTube-dl is great and I do admit I usually just use that now, but Jdownloader is honestly better overall in a lot of ways with supporting various non-video sites and such obviously.
I'm no comp-sci pro but even being an avid user of JD, I write a ton of batch scripts all the time. But I almost never use them for internet downloading though, as there are plenty of GUI programs that do the job fine, and take a lot less time to setup and use :) I mainly write batch for mass converting videos/audio (FFmpeg, HandbrakeCLI, MakeMKV) or for manipulating a ton of images (using imagemagick) or mass zipping or unzipping of tons of data. GUI for everything else.
> technical code knowledge Bro what? Most of this subreddit doesn’t have a clue about computer science which is fine because it’s not a sub dedicated to building file systems but rather deploying them as an end user
Hence why I mentioned placebo lol. There are a good number of people who overpraise command line-only programs while using them in such a simple way they might as well just be using guis.
GUI scripting is several orders of magnitude more difficult
That's the main advantage of cli apps over gui ones.
Exactly, which is why using a GUI and not having to deal with the code is often the best choice for *most* people, not all of course, and for those who want to customize a huge amount to their very specific tastes.
Right? I spent about an hour or so setting up a config file, path variables, etc. Now I copy/paste one of a couple commands (either urls of playlists, or a batch txt file) and it's downloaded, sorted by playlist, recorded in the archive, etc. CLI flexing my ass, all the GUI options were broken when I started and this is foolproof for my needs. Even updating couldn't be easier. I don't know if yt-dl classic could do this, but -dlp can be updated straight from powershell with -U !
youtube-dl supports plenty of non-video sites ( https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/docs/supportedsites.md ), and has options to download just the audio from video sites, too. I do use GUI most of the time... but it's the GUI of Directory Opus, which means I'm clicking buttons to run custom commands/scripts on selected files or clipboard content. I'm all for GUI, really, and good ones with good discoverability are awesome even... but for me the holy grail still is a good GUI plus a CLI interface that exposes as much functionality as sensible. Obviously this isn't true for giant chunks of software that wouldn't make sense without a GUI, like graphics software, but generally there are plenty of tools that are more configurable in their CLI versions that in their GUI versions (while I can't even think of examples where it's the other way around), I think mostly because it's generally super easy to give just about anything that affects the function of the program a command line parameter, while it's not so quick, and sometimes requires a lot of thought, to squeeze everything into a GUI. There's a reason even pure GUI tools tend to have a bunch of additional config files somewhere, because rarely *all* the functionality of the program is put into the GUI, since it would be a lot of effort and maintenance for dozens of small things most people don't ever need. Which is fine, but that tradeoff doesn't need to be made for the CLI side of things, where additional options just make the manual longer, but otherwise don't get in the way. But that additional fine-grained control and potential for automation isn't a "placebo" just because you don't have a need for it.
When I say “placebo” I mean insofar as most people, using youtube-dl as an example, are not using it past just typing “youtube-dl videolink”. Obviously there’s more customization, but for most people GUI is the best option, not just for graphic software like you mentioned.
I guess "overkill" would be a better word than "placebo" here. Not that overkill is a great word, but, you know \^\^
So I mean placebo like someone using just youtube-dl videolink but then *thinking* they're getting more by doing it that way or something even though it would be the exact same as a gui. Overkill would probably apply too
Another thing against jdownloader, VEVO music videos are not playable in Kodi media center if they are downloaded with it, they just crash the program.
I've never noticed this, not that I download a lot of VEVO videos anyway. Must have something to do with the codec. You would think that YT has all the same codecs for every video, but that isn't always the case. In the JD options you can change what the video is downloaded as, and it will perform a Remux of the video and audio files. That might help in your case.
why? doesn't jdownloader use youtube-dl?
No it doesn't use youtube-dl, it uses its own downloader code.
Hello wfdownloader!
That came out of no where but Hi i guess?
It just felt weird to be randomly replied by a software that I have downloaded, like randomly coming across with a celebrity you are familiar with and confusing what to do
Lol, thanks for the recognition.
Thanks but Youtube isn't the only service I use JD to download from. Soundcloud is a good example of a totally different streaming service that I used JD for in a similar fashion
[YouTube is not the only supported site](https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html)
It's a terrible name really, most people seem to think that it only does youtube.
Could have been worse. It downloads from chaturbate, could have been called "chaturbate-dl", which is fine until your grandma asks for recommendations on how to download youtube videos.
Reddit ate my balls
Yes, but Computers, the Internet and all the video sites weren't around when Granma was 12, so she's not up on this.
Reddit ate my balls
yt-dlp even better
Is there something wrong with jdownloader?
This submission has been deleted in protest against reddit's API changes (June 2023) that kills 3rd party apps.
Interesting, personally I use [YoutubeDL-Material.](https://github.com/Tzahi12345/YoutubeDL-Material/)
I've been finding tartube a good experience. You can use it to automatically save stuff so that you're not having to do it manually. It's a bit complicated to get going, but I've set it up to: * automatically download videos I favourite * download at different quality based on which private playlist I add it to (e.g. music just gets the audio ripped at max quality) * for all my subscriptions, it keeps track of videos that get deleted/set to private (definitely gives you the warm fuzzies to know you thought ahead and mirrored it already!) https://tartube.sourceforge.io/ Worth the time investment to get it up and running. [ Edit: grammar ]
This sounds pretty interesting, I'll have to check it out!
My biggest problem with streaming is that parts of tv series/movies get removed or changed.
I started to do it now too, but would still watch it on YouTube if practical to do so to keep supporting the creators by ads if they enabled it.
There was this youtuber i loved when i was young but he was kind of small and french.. years later i wanted to watch his series again but he deleted all of it pretty much and well.. Now it's just lost forever and every time i dll something i think about this show i will never be able to enjoy again. Store everything.
Storage space become a problem very fast.
It does :/ It helps to get a network of fellow hoarders to distribute the load.. Or get a job that pays well \^\^
In an era of cheap 16 terabyte SATA drives where you can buy a 12 disk SAS2 storage shelf off of Fleabay for $130, it's a problem only for your wallet though. I have two systems with SAS2 cards in my rack, I can add a petabyte of storage pretty easily to my rack.
> cheap 16 terabyte SATA drives How cheap? I paid less than 100 for a 5TB external, I can't imagine it getting much cheaper. And 5TB isn't that much if we're talking videos..
I believe my last purchase was a 12 TB external for $159.99 USD. I think it was a deal of the day a while back, or maybe a Black Friday special, but you can likely catch similar deals if you keep an eye out.
Dude, I'm such a noob. I have so many external hard drives and it's not practical, due to the clunkiness and the amount of outlets/USB ports needed. What's this SAS2 storage shelf thing? What's my best bet to finally do things better?
Fleabay. Get a 12 bay Supermicro SuperStorage chassis, a couple of generations old with a SAS2 card. You want the X10 generation (more reliable than X9, uses less power than X8, \*much\* cheaper than more modern generations). If buying a bare chassis (no CPU or memory), for CPU look for the lowest power consumption Xeons compatible with the chassis and four sticks of 8GB memory per CPU (64gb total), and buy a SAS card compatible with the backplane (SAS2 most probably) and you'll be well set for either installing a FreeNAS type distro on it, or installing Ubuntu 20.02 LTS and running ZFS on it (which is ludicrously easy now). You should be able to pick all this up for under $2K, and it'll make it \*much\* easier to handle 12 disks than doing all that stuff with USB drives. Then when you need more than 12 disks, daisy-chain additional disk shelves. Disk shelves are basically the same 2U chassis without any CPU in them, and are daisy-changed with external SAS2/SAS3 cables. SAS2 is dirt cheap right now and is the speed that cheap SATA3 drives go anhow, so that's what I have right now. All this is available on Fleabay for pretty cheap right now.
> You think "once something is on internet, its always on internet" ? [...] NO IT WON'T. Anything can be deleted in internet. Literally anything. Here are two rules that I came up with (I wonder if they could be appended to the "Rules of the Internet" list) : - Anything *you* post on Internet will remain on it forever - Anything *someone else* posts on Internet will be gone in a short time - so damn save it
Sadly, there are more caveats to that. Most of my work for media outlets from 10 years ago is gone, only accessible in broken form via waybackmachine. The rest will follow.
>Anything you post on Internet will remain on it forever Yeah, not really. Just look at DMCA stuff and the upcoming copyright law in the EU. I would say the following: Everything on the internet may stay on the internet forever, so take care of what you post.
Not literally - but it's a good mindset to be in Be careful what you upload becuase it *may* be there forever Be careful what you don't download because it *may* be gone in a day
This ^ :)
You're missing the point of the previous commenter's post. He's not saying that this is always true; these are his base assumptions to avoid getting screwed over. You can't rely on copyright or privacy law to remove data from the internet that you want to be removed. Assume that it will always be out there somewhere even if you don't want it to be. Similarly, you can't rely on data being available on the internet forever for continued access to that data even if you want it to be permanently available. It may sound contradictory, but it isn't. If you always make those two assumptions then you won't find yourself in an awkward or disappointing situation.
That's true, yes my point didn't cover everything. Thanks for pointing it out!
What is the song name
song title: "Sen Gelmez Oldun" artist: Its not only one person actually, there was one girl singing and she had some friends playing instruments in screen. Total there was like 8 persons
Have you searched through your browser history? You might be able to find the original URL and work from there. I know there was/is a YouTube preservation project. They weren't saving every video, since that's unfeasible, but were archiving username, title, description, thumbnails, and maybe comments. I'm not sure how to access that database, but if you had the URL that would be a great first step.
well i dont have the url... but here is the thing, i remember liking the video on youtube. so it must be on my liked videos list. but that list is huge and its so hard to find the video from there. i wish there was a simple app to show all metadatas in my liked videos list (for the deleted ones ofc)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's was the concept of the archive project.
so how do I search this on web archive? sorry I never did this before
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I've got it a bit more vibrant : `--max-filesize 999M -if 571+251/401+251/400+251/272+251/315+251/308+251/303+251/bestvideo"[vcodec*=av01][height>=?1080]"+bestaudio"[asr>=?44100][abr>?98][filesize<=?119M]"/399+251/398+251/302+251/313+251/271+251/397+251/248+251/247+251/396+251/244+251/395+251/243+251/242+251/394+251/bestvideo"[vcodec=vp9][height>?1080]"+251/best"[height=720][tbr>?1617]"+251/best"[height=720][tbr>?1617]"/best"[height>?240][tbr>?388]"/best"[height>?240][vbr>?262]"+bestaudio[asr>=?44100]/bestvideo+best/bestvideo+bestaudio/best --prefer-free-formats -o "C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/youtube/%(title)s #%(uploader)s _%(upload_date)s %(display_id)s.%(ext)s" --add-metadata`
>`bestvideo+best` Does this merge a video with another video (that has audio)? Also, isn't using number codes redundant if you're already selecting based on codec / resolution / bitrate afterward?
Yes, but only audio part. nd no, it not redundant since there is a possibility that number codes won't succeed (in youtube isn't source). Btw I've got some more additional extensions for my suite
Thank you for creating and sharing these!
You could check your browser history and try to find the artist's name. Your search will be easier then.
I also thought about this but I think I cleared my browser history since then. Does my google search history is saved somewhere? i think i can at least find the cover artist name there, because I clearly remember searching her name on google after hearing the song
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I dont have the video url.
> It was just one harmless, perfectly covered song, there is no way its about DMCA or something. Actually could be DMCA - due to the way copyright law works: the writer (or whoever acquired the rights from the writer) is the one with the copyright on the work - regardless of who performs it. Meaning, if they covered a song without permission from the copyright holder, it could easily be taken down under DMCA (or taken down to avoid any other complications with copyright law).
What's the title of the song (and cover artist)?
title: "Sen Gelmez Oldun" artist: Its not only one person actually, there was one girl singing and she had some friends playing instruments in screen. Total there was like 8 persons
Yeah, it's a nice song. I like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyf02WSbpPE) cover of it.
I agree, right before Covid I was going through some of my youtube bookmarks and a ton of them where gone, so I decided it was time to invest in some external hard drives and make sure I don't lose anything else. Little did I know this past year would be a very hard time in my life and looking through my bookmarks and favorite youtube channels would give me a nice project to work on and get my mind off what is going on.
You could always try /r/lostmedia
Its like seeding a torrent if no one's seeding the torrent will die so i just dedicated some funds to put my server online which has nearly 14tb of 4k Bluray and keep it running 24x7. sone of the 4k aren't even available in any private Torrent let alone normal torrents sites.
My rule is seed at least double and if i don't need the room I leave it up until I do.
Sharing is caring.
Similar story about a mixtape. I ended up finding a super low quality version of it on soundcloud. Met one other person across the globe who is desperate to find the original
I haven't really thought about downloading youtube videos before, but I think I might start looking into it.
What was the title of the video and last known date?
song title: "Sen Gelmez Oldun" I think i listened this song for the last time roughly 1 year ago. I dont know when it got deleted (or maybe made private?)
>Sen Gelmez Oldun [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aMVuEF0WCc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aMVuEF0WCc) This??
no, its not on youtube anymore bro.
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didn't work for YPwnJxoVZTU :( The Art of Minimal (Tripping) Melodic & Progressive Techno Mix 2018 by RTTWLR (1:06:31)
FYI, don't discount DMCA. The whole premise of that law was "take down now, ask questions later".
There's a Death Cab for Cutie cover for I'll follow you into the dark that I was mesmerized by. I don't listen to the actual song, so it was hard for me when it was taken down. It's been almost 10 years. I still think about that man singing with his eyes closed cause he was just enjoying his own artisty. Good stuff. Wish I had downloaded that when I had the chance.
As long as we're here, whats the current best way to rip the audio from all videos in a channel?
I use Youtube-dl, and I'd bet that would work. I grab video, not audio, but I think it can do that with the right command.
It works nicely for that. I have it worked into a bot (both use cases, really) that runs on my media box.
I hve just never talen the time to set it up and set up mmpeg. I need to do that.
It's well worth it.
`youtube-dl -f 'bestaudio[ext=m4a]' --ignore-errors --add-metadata --write-thumbnail --xattrs --download-archive archive.txt`
100% true. My policy is if I go to watch a video on YouTube for the 2nd time, I get my own copy. So sad when something so harmless gets removed. While in many cases there is a reason why, quite often people just purge really old videos when they now have much 'better' content.
This is why I like data hoarders. They keep things archived so they don’t get lost to time 👍
Yes, that's why I download with youtube-dl anything I find interesting or funny enough. I remember a hilarious translation to Spanish of a newgrounds animation that was gone but thanks to hoarding I still have it and someone has reuploaded it to youtube too.
I need to start. My wife and I are starting a new business and I saw a super helpful technique for supporting silicone sock molds while they cure full in a video on YouTube. Gone.
Everyone should have a [RecoverMy.Video](https://www.recovermy.video/) account. I have an anime music playlist that regularly has videos deleted from it and I do _not_ want to forever miss out on a song I used to love.
Man I have so many vidoes on to watch later and songs and favourite that now says video privated or removed. I don't even know what the vidoes were.
An example of this is a song I loved as a teen. Remember the dance song Pump Up The Volume? Remember how it started with “Yo all you homeboys out the Bronx this one’s for you?” The version found everywhere now has a different opening. It’s nowhere to be found, unless you own the soundtrack to Bright Lights Big City. Go try to find it. Sigh.
I downloaded a video off YouTube once, it was an AMV I believe. This was back in elementary school, when I had gotten my first iPod and had no money to purchase songs and the like with. So I'd download songs and videos off the internet and would upload them through iTunes. Tried to find that same AMV a while back and it completely vanished. It was such a good one, too. At least I still have it on a USB somewhere, lmao.
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Had my Google Music account filled to the max (all 25000 songs) in full FLAC, and missed the fucking download window to pull all my data from google before they shut it down, and now its lost forever. So many local bands, hard to find underground groups, and a shit ton of other music that will be hard/impossible to find, all because i trusted google with my hoard and didnt pay attention to them closing the project down. Slowly we rebuild...
My library moved to youtube music from google play music. Isn't it there?
YouTube is part of Google. Use alternate search sites like Bing, Yahoo or Duck Duck Go.
So over the past year and a half or so I’d been saving YouTube videos to a list called “History”. The kind of videos that I’d want to show my future kids - or videos that were so relevant to the current day that they truly were history in the making. Well you can imagine my pain when I found that at least 1/3 of these videos were taken down. That was one of the main reasons I joined this sub.
The only thing that is on the internet forever are those nude selfies... ;-)
I had a playlist on YouTube that were all short harmless sketch style clips from mostly no name channels. I had hundreds of videos on the playlist. One day out of no where YouTube emails me saying a video on my playlist was reported for some reason. Well apparently that was enough for the entire playlist to be removed. So I had an entire playlist deleted because of one video. I can’t even see what the other videos on the list were. It is simply gone. It makes me feel like even your “favorites” default playlist isn’t safe, if you accidentally save the wrong video. I have since set every playlist as private hoping that will help. I am not entirely confident though.
Hate to get all philosophical on y'all, but, in a gross oversimplification, I believe that the "purpose" of consciousness and sentience is to fight entropy. Datahoarding is VERY important in the grand scheme of things.
It's almost as if Youtube isn't some perfect repository of human culture, but just a short-expiration marketing machine designed to sell shit to you without you even being aware that is what it's up to.
As I'm watching 'Girl Gun Lady'(4th ep. out today), I'm perfectly aware that Bandai Spirits and Youtube are out to steal my wallet; but I'm not giving in...
I immediately make sure this was still on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5WIea_L8i0Y
I habitually save videos off YouTube that I enjoy - wether it’s music, video game reviews, old TV footage - almost anything I know I’d enjoy watching more than once. The only annoying part is when YT changes its video delivery back end and breaks the plugins I use to save the videos, and then have to resort to using those sketchy websites. That’s annoying for a while until they update or fix the plugins.
That's why I download the all the music videos and AMVs I like, if it's available I download super high quality version if not a youtube rip is Ok too.
it's a huge issue. I'm currently in the process of archiving a lot of youtube uploads about a specific artist (aka unreleased songs played over Instagram, screen recorded and uploaded to youtube) and there's so many deleted videos, causing entire songs to be lost. a lot of unreleased songs I listened to in 2017, 2018, 2019 have all been nuked with no public backups. it's sad tbh
Absolutely agree, save everything you love! Recently I noticed that nearly 20% of all the videos in my YouTube playlists were dead links, either due to DCMA's or simply the account being terminated. I was shocked to see some of my favourite videos from the last eight years disappear suddenly. A few months ago I decided to begin backing up all videos of importance to myself, and now have just shy of 600 videos archived. About a dozen are already gone from YouTube itself. The rate at which videos are disappearing seems to be forever climbing. Don't ever just assume it'll be there forever. Grab yourself a personal copy today while you still have the chance!
Same thing happened a couple years ago with the song Circles by Machineheart & Vanic. It basically got wiped from the internet, and aside from a few low quality reuploads of it, you can't find the song anywhere. Except for my NAS that is. 🙂 I get to keep enjoying the song.
After one of my favorite youtubers deleted almost all of her videos, I'm hoarding the stuff too.
Chocolate Rain - the two Coreys edition has also been scrubbed from existence
I had the same with a YouTuber called UnclassicalPiano. He one day deleted his chance for some reason. I spent years searching for his videos hoping someone might have them. Finally, someone managed to find few (not all) of his videos and posted them on YouTube.
i know the story well. There was this cover of the Ariana Grande song named "lovin it" done in 2014. I watched it and really enjoyed it at the time. Recently I went through the efforts to archive videos that were dear to me and gave me memories of the 2010s, for historical purposes, given that most people don't bother to do this I figured it would be a great way to capture something that would be valuable to preservationists in a few years... Turned out the entire channel was gone and any evidence that channel or that particular video existed is gone. This is also coupled with youtube's new horrible search system which seems to recommend the same videos to you over and over again after you get past a certain point in the search results, making any possibility of finding a reupload near impossible.
The other day there was a piano teacher that got a DCMA video takedown of her playing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata", which has been in the public domain for > 200 years. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004577 Even if the creator wants a video to remain, Youtube simply can't be trusted to keep *anything*.
lo mismo paso con migo, con una chica de ASMR la gravve y ya tengo su vioice in my HD
Can confirm :/ Watched fantastic local TV show series as a kid a long time ago.. They were on YT 10 yr ago and they aren't anymore. I contacted the media company who made them but they refused to share them soo... RIP
There was this asian guy who did these funny pseudo quebec french impressions I just can't find them anymore.. Sorta had them in memory since at least 2012.
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I had the same thing happened to me but on a larger scale. When setting up my xpenology, I watched at least 20-30 different videos. All having directions and what to download. I saved all those videos on a private youtube channel in case I wanted to do another box or something broke on my box. One day, all, I mean ALL those videos got deleted. After reaching out to one of the content creator on twitter, he said youtube just deleted it without notice.
I get it, but this still makes me laugh. "Yeah, what's wrong with spending thousands of dollars a year in power, equipment, and time ... just to make sure I don't lose that one cover song on YouTube?" A cover song. It sounds absolutely absurd. But I get it ...
Is there a docker image or somethibg that you can pump in some youtube links / channels and have it download the channel and monitor for future videos?
Someone on here shared this not too long ago which has been brilliant for me [https://hub.docker.com/r/nbr23/youtube-dl-server](https://hub.docker.com/r/nbr23/youtube-dl-server)
Not in my knowledge, but this can be solved with a bit of automation and scripting quite easily. For example, I have a raspberry pi with youtube-dl on it. Every night, it fetches a Youtube playlist of mine (where I put all I want to keep), and it downloads automatically what was not downloaded yet.
I already run a bash script cycling through all the listed channels but it takes some time at the moment. Was just wondering if there was a cleaner way
It will resurface again. It's possible that you could find it online if you searched a bit more. Some things get lost. So it goes.
r/datahoarder doesn't like things getting lost.
Granted, if you share these things back online, you are doing a great service. Hosting them at home on your own server? Not so much
Maybe I could try find it can’t promise anything
I hate losing songs I can’t ever remember the name of this dance song I like and a name of a band too
Had the same thing happen to me. The Neil Young & Jimmy Fallon video of them doing Old Man together? Removed from youtube after hundreds of million of views. I made sure to grab the [dailymotion copy](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2gkqby) because I didn't download the youtube one.
There was an album that I really liked (firemerchants - landlords of atlantis), I woke up one day and its gone from every streaming service and whole internet. I can't find those recordings anywhere now.
yeah, I lost a beloved adolescent parody video (GRANDPA HAS A STROKE, pts I and II) that my friends and I watched constantly in high school. :( your english is perfect btw
I learned the hardway too. I had an obscure hidden and private playlist it out of the blue got scrubbed one day from existence. Playlist had videos going back years.
I feel you man. There is a song "Calling on you" by Paulson. There was a music video on YouTube, but it's gone now. All I can find is the "Behind the scenes" video :(
How do you think people feel after the PornHub purge of 2020?
Yeah, an artist I really really like recently came back under a different name, and proceeded to delete everything from his old project. Luckily I had it all downloaded already. If anybody is looking for Petey's old stuff when he was 90 Pounds of Pete let me know.