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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Always, always archive youtube videos you want to watch later... (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Mountainking7@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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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!

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[–] Spendocrat@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

We need a torrent site just for these.

[–] grandinosour@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use an automated Downloader to download subscribed videos when they are uploaded to watch at my convience ad free.

[–] edbighead95@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What software do you use for this purpose?

[–] 994499@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

yes please let us know how to DL

[–] Motorsheep@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I actually purchased a copy of '4K Video Downloader' for this very purpose, and previously used Internet Download Manager for many years (I still use IDM as a backup as 4k sometimes can't download videos with particular settings). I was able to save a few pulled videos this way, and have an extensive collection I can look back on. It is a kick to see postage-stamp sized videos of memes I was watching in the mid 2000's. I don't keep everything I download, but I download everything I watch.

[–] bluedays@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I've been having a helluva time finding Sesame Street episodes from the 70s.

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[–] i-dont-exist-for-you@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

i have (checks drive) about 4 TIB of archived youtube content, there is a non zero chance i have something you want if you like the same stuff i do lol.

Somewhere between 7-14 thousand videos. I havent checked the real number.

It's content i like mostly, with some definite deletions later on. Archived for posterity since if i don't do it nobody else will, even though unlikely to go bunk. It could happen someday :)

[–] Just_Aioli_1233@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

A reminder for people in the US who may be concerned, the same time shifting principle from this SCOTUS decision applies to saving streaming content. Simply, if you had legal access to the content at one point in time, you are allowed to time shift by recording and playing back for personal use at another point in time.

!IANAL YMMV!<

[–] HubiRo@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

you can setup a cron job to run yt-dlp with a link to your "liked videos" playlist periodically

[–] LaGrande-Gwaz@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

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

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