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

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810 points bertman | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 10:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.261s | source
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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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nicman23 ◴[12 Nov 25 13:49 UTC] No.45900140[source]▶
do you have a cron job or something? i know it is probably trivial but eh
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1. bdz ◴[12 Nov 25 13:56 UTC] No.45900220[source]▶
No! It would be easier but I burned myself so many times with removed videos that I do it on my own basically asap manually. Not a big deal once you have yt-dlp properly