I just downloaded the entire Classic Chicago Television youtube channel on a whim - eviltoast

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.

  • NikkiNikkiNikki@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Plan to do this with a lot of the entertainment videos I watch, considering how ban happy some websites have been with content creators, being able to still see their craft after it is gone is worthwhile.

    Just need to buy a fuckton of storage though

    • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneOP
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      1 year ago

      Me too. There’s a couple channels I’ve downloaded in their entirety, but they’re nothing like the size of this one.