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

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798 points bertman | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 10:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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trallnag ◴[12 Nov 25 13:39 UTC] No.45900007[source]▶
Do you ever go back and actually watch those videos? Whenever I start to journal, track, or just document something, after some time I notice again and again that most of the value has already been created the moment I finish working on a specific entry. Even with something seemingly very important like medical records. Maybe one exception I can think of are recordings of memories involving people close to you
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1. dylan604 ◴[12 Nov 25 14:26 UTC] No.45900606[source]▶
I don’t think journaling is the same thing though as hoarding pics/videos. Even if you never go back and read through old hand written journals, just the physical process of writing has mental effects that pics/videos do not. There’s also a bit of therapeutic results from slowing down and putting thought to paper. So to me the only similarity is that you might not ever look at it again, that does not make them the same at all