a TorrentFreak article got me spooked so I fired up the ol’ yt-dlp. Got the entire channel, including comments, description metadata, and thumbnail images.

A significant number of videos were actually unavailable because of an odd YouTube bug where 15+ year old videos were listed as “currently being processed”. I may re-run this later (since I ran it in archive file mode) to get the missing videos, as it seems there may be about 300 out of 4911 videos missing.

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yt-dlp does support fetching comments and description text - if you use the --write-info-json and --write-comments options, it will save them as a JSON file alongside other video metadata.

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Niiice! Didn’t know that this was supported so far.

Thank you mate!

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Yep. Those two and --write-thumbnail

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I think I do have the subs tag in my default config, but almost none of their videos have any.

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