Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

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bdz ◴[12 Nov 25 13:17 UTC] No.45899768[source]▶

I use yt-dlp (and back then youtube-dl) all the time to archive my liked videos. Started back in around 2010, now I have tens of thousands of videos saved. Storage is cheap and a huge percent of them are not available anymore on the site.

I also save temporary videos removed after a time for example NHK honbasho sumo highlights which are only available for a month or so then they permanently remove them.

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1. blarg1 ◴[12 Nov 25 13:35 UTC] No.45899943[source]▶

>>45899768 #

I started after channels started removing their own videos because they either didn't think the videos were good enough or they had a mental break and deleted their channel. So good stuff just gone.

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2. doublerabbit ◴[12 Nov 25 14:40 UTC] No.45900803[source]▶

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Some of the old YTPs were fantastic. They don't exist now.

Generations of talent & creativity just gone.

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3. ajsnigrutin ◴[12 Nov 25 15:04 UTC] No.45901113[source]▶

>>45899943 (TP) #

Or because someone else made them take them off. Or because they were deemed 'too dangerous'. Or worse.

Cody's lab removed a few of them and many others.

4. kragen ◴[12 Nov 25 16:39 UTC] No.45902267[source]▶

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What's a "YTP"?

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5. Valulz ◴[12 Nov 25 16:59 UTC] No.45902564{3}[source]▶

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YouTube poop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Poop

6. underlipton ◴[12 Nov 25 17:40 UTC] No.45903128[source]▶

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There was one instance where a prominent "doujin" musical artist got fingered as a thief. Away went all of their videos, except... he'd packaged them as something completely different from wherever he'd taken them from. One song in particular sucked to lose, because its sibling still exists as an "extended" upload. So, I can listen to the one any time, but the other, I simply know that it once existed, and that it might still exist somewhere else, just under a different title. I can't even remember how it went.

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