Example 1:
Right during the pandemic, TFI (French TV) put up all past seasons of its show ‘Star Academy’. It was something I have been trying to get hold of but did not have any luck. As soon as it popped I thought I got it all. (2 years ago). Today I found out I was missing the first season (8 in total) and went to try to grab it. ALL seasons have now been removed. I am quite pissed at it!
Example 2:
A user upscaled Britney Spear music videos using AI. The results were mind blowing. I grabbed all the videos I could (official ones are 480p/720 p max limited). Less than 1 week later, the content was gone…forever.
Example 3: (Non YT)
Not YT. Koh Lanta (French equivalent of Survivor) is aired on french TV (TFI again). As soon as the season is over, they take it down. You are unable to rewatch/watch it if you missed the air/stream time. ALL past seasons are also not available and that spans to about 20+ years of contents and 30+seasons. Same applies to US Survivor but to a lesser extent. And you need to keep paying to ‘stream’ it.
Conclusion:
Always archive media you want to rewatch/collect. Streaming is not your friend. It is just another way of controlling content distribution, tying you up to the ‘subscription’ slavery model instead of owning your contents and worse, down the line downright CENSORING or MODIFYING contents to fit whatever garbage narrative is currently en vogue.
Stay focused brothers!
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.
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.
Yes, I use playlist in JDL. I just archived 5 french sitcoms totalling about 90-100GB of space from YT. I’m sure they will take it out at some point as it is still being played by AB channels…
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??? :)
Of course I can … lol. I’ll upload it asap. Give me 1-2 days.
edit: It was 4k upscaled
yt-dlp
Have you any copy pasta to drop? Most GUI attached to yt-dlp seem to run into hiccups from time to time. My most recent case is it downloading 720p rather than the highest available video.
I think I managed in the past to figure out how to run prompts at some point, but it was a confusing affair for me personally. I like how most GUI allow me to copy a playlist and kinda just forget and let it download.
Amen to this.
or me casualty saving music I like into a playlist, revisitng it a year later
“57 tracks that are no longer available are hidden”
I’ll just leave this here: https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub
It’s a tool that watches YouTube channels or playlists, downloads everything, and prepares them so they appear directly in players like Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi etc. Basically the equivalent of the *arr stack for YouTube.
And the grown up version of that is /r/tubearchivist (it also includes a plugin to sync to Jellyfin).
ytdl-sub author here, I kindly disagree calling it a child’s version of TA 🙂 Minus the elastic-search/player, its scraping features I think are a superset of TA while being incredibly lightweight (at the cost of being a CLI tool).
I too am a connoisseur of music vids and concerts, it’s actually one of the main reasons I built ytdl-sub. Feel free to ping me with any questions - happy to help
If only it had a GUI interface for those who CBF figuring out how to configure a command line interface.
You can still get them if you use a tool like Snap Downloader. Put the playlist URL into the search and it will show the URL of every video that has been removed. Search each one individually on Wayback Machine and enter the Wayback URL for that video. Works more often than not, but you have to sift through instances sometimes.
I also want to add that you can use an extension that automatically submits pages that you go to on your computer to The Wayback Machine so that, even if it is deleted, you can easily find the artist and song by searching on Wayback Machine. The easiest way to archive it for someone who doesn’t have a lot of technical knowledge is to turn the extension on, mute your computer, and then let your entire playlist run on 2x speed (or whatever the fastest is) while you sleep.
Is this the easiest way of backing things up? No. Is it possibly more convenient to download the media for your own collection? Yeah, but if your technical knowledge is limited or if you don’t currently have access to a lot of storage space, this could probably be of use.