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.

  • raoulraoul@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As if they’re not having enough trouble with hosting “questionable” content! You obviously didn’t read the torrentfreak article making the rounds.

    Internet Archive != the Pirate Bay.

    For now, DON’T contaminate the IA with the Classic Chicago Television channel.