I’ve been at it for months
Nothing is permanent
My dad sometimes asks me to help him find some movie from the 70s or 80s and it simply doesn’t exist anymore. The internet promised me I’d never be in that situation myself. The internet lied.
Everyone told me, why are you keeping all those harddrives with old movies and media and porn and comic books and books and audio lectures and all that shit. Why you hoarding it?
And after thirty years I was like, you know what, maybe they’re right. I’m just hoarding at this point.
But then I check online and shit is disappearing forever. I knew it would happen 30 years ago, and took precautions. It may not be much but I did my part.
All of us already pay for it. It’s time to stop sucking corpo dick. Building a company out of garage, to exploit every angle isn’t something to celebrate. That data center and that power line and power plants everyone pays for isn’t a bastion to stand on. Everyone is paying for it. It’s not magic, the content creators are being grifted as well.
Been doing it for more than a decade… and never stop
There’s only one video I need to download.
There are yt-dlp GUIs with SponsorBlock built-in.
Warning: after using SponsorBlock and uBlock Origin for a while, using YouTube or Invidious without them is horrific.
Still trying to get all my favorite flash videos…
Harry Potter vs DBZ on Newgrounds two decades later is still funnier than everything YouTube pushes out.
Was it archived by flashpoint? I know their focus was games, but they did have some videos too.
I’m downloading DBZ Abridged
Well yeah, that’s the canonical version
Inb4 Sam Altman says all hard drives belong in data centers.
All your hard drive are belong to shareholder
I agree on principle, but on what storage? Who’s with me in planning a data center heist?
It’s not as bad as people are saying. Storage has gotten more expensive, but: 1h of YouTube at 1080p is around 3GB. Storage is currently sitting at 25-30€/TB. That allows you to save 330h of YouTube content, which is a lot.
Get a low-power GPU for 50 $ on ebay. Still faster than your poor iGPU at converting your videos to a more recent format with 1/3 the space requirements.
Also, does the cat-funny video need to be in 4k? yt-dlp
-Fto list and-fto choose (accepts ‘+’ combinations).I recently bought a used 10tb hard drive for $190.
It’s decently affordable, look it up.
and you won’t have a backup when it suddenly fails. if it starts reporting bad blocks, you may not even have enough time to copy everything off of it before it fails. you should at least run something that notifies you if it starts to fail, if you don’t yet have it.
at 10 TB read speeds are still roughly at most 120 MB/s, which means roughly a full day of continuous copying. sometimes drives fail faster under that stress.
all I want to say, is be careful.
Having a backup is always essential, especially for things that cannot simply be redownloaded.
Currently, I have irrecoverable info stored elsewhere (outside my home), and I plan on getting a second 10tb drive just to have a full copy.
Im down
You son of a bitch, I’m in
I’ve gotten into archiving YouTube content. My only problem is eventually getting blocked from that level of access for a time, and the available workarounds are hacky at best and expensive at worst (using a VPS, etc)
STACHER7 FOR YT-DLP
yt-dlp is the gold standard for ripping YouTube vids (as well as vids/music from damn near anywhere else). However, yt-dlp is not particularly user friendly, like, at all. There is a GUI wrapper called Stacher7 that makes it a whole lot easier to use. It’s one of the better things I’ve installed on my computer.
yt-dlp is such a great little app
whot? there’s a website for it https://www.ezmdl.com/ it doesn’t allow you to query massive downloads, (you can do playlists, but to do multiple playlists at the same time you gotta duplicate the window and put each playlist in a new tab) but it has no ads and is super simple, a kid could use this one (limited to mp4 and mp3 with no quality options, but still)
whot? there’s a website for it https://www.ezmdl.com/ it doesn’t allow you to query massive downloads, (you can do playlists, but to do multiple playlists at the same time you gotta duplicate the window and put each playlist in a new tab) but it has no ads and is super simple, a kid could use this one (limited to mp4 and mp3 with no quality options, but still)
I’m running MeTube as docker container on my home server and it’s wonderful!
The yt-dlp tool is plenty user friendly. It’s some of the best/most consistent semantics I’ve seen. The command on the other hand…
puts on pirate hat would this work for uploaded memes by chance? I make Minecraft content and having to separately download .gif’s and .mp3’s is getting a bit tiresome when I’d like to drop in some cheeky brain rot in for the top kek lulz while I edit the footage in Resolve.
I give you all permission to download mine.
Please just credit anything you might use and tag my channel. Cheers.
Any recomendations for youtube downloaders? For Android and PC/Linux?
For PC use Stacher7, a GUI wrapper for YT-DLP.
For android, run yt-dlp in termux. For PC, use yt-dlp.
yt-dlp is the thing every software is using, so use that. But on Android I would recommend something like NewPipe or PipePipe. Those are adfree alternative Youtube clients where you can watch your videos, but also download them from the GUI. That might be easier than termux
In tje past years I have downloaded and archived about 200 GB of my favorite YouTube videos using yt-dlp. Most of them are low resolution for storage reasons, so it’s a lot more videos than you’d think. Now they can’t be taken away from me and I can watch them whenever I want.
So yt-dlp can be a bit rough for non-power users. There is a fantastic GUI wrapper for it called Stacher7. I use it daily.
You think typing yt-dlp URL is rough for users? I cannot think of a simpler command line command other than maybe ls.
not really though. it is more like this, simplified:
yt-dlp URL --output /path/with/all/the/funky/patameters.%(ext) --all-the-worlds-parameters-for-good-format-quality-subs-whateverelseyes if you want to download a single video or two, the basic command works somewhat, but not usable if you want to download lots of videos from multiple channels
You’re making up cases that don’t need to exist. The basic command and its defaults works fine. It can download every video from every channel. Don’t need anything else.
I dunno if I would call it rough; it’s just a CLI tool. You write
yt-dlpand then paste in the URL.Maybe I’m doing that xkcd comic where I overestimate average people’s familiarity with CLI though. It only gets complicated if you want to customise it beyond the basic flags in your global config file. I set it to include chapters and download subtitles for example. Once I get home I’ll try and remember to paste my config file here.
