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.

  • Asimo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ah found in GitHub. For some reason I never put 2 and 2 together to automate YouTube video downloads. What a noob hah.

    • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneOP
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, the yt-dlp fork is still actively maintained and has very nice results, glad you found it.