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peteforde ◴[] No.45308944[source]
One of the things that drives me crazy about YouTube is that if a video gets taken down, it shows up as a "This video is no longer available" with no further metadata. I am far, far more uptight about no knowing which video was removed than I am about the fact that it is no longer available.

I have put serious thought into creating a tool that would automatically yt-dlp every video I open to a giant hard drive and append a simple index with the title, channel, thumbnail and date.

In general, I think people are way too casual about media of all kinds silently disappearing when you're not looking.

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1. Sophira ◴[] No.45314574[source]
You might find https://findyoutubevideo.thetechrobo.ca/ to be helpful! It was posted before on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38228481