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

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798 points bertman | 3 comments | 12 Nov 25 10:12 UTC | HN request time: 1.83s | 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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cantor_S_drug ◴[12 Nov 25 14:00 UTC] No.45900275[source]▶
You are a digital hoarder. I have taken so many pics that I wouldn't even bother to look back that them (do we ever?) but Google memories is really a neat feature, it refreshes memories. I think you should run a similar service to refresh memory of your favourite videos like they are on speed dail.
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1. johnisgood ◴[12 Nov 25 14:59 UTC] No.45901045[source]▶
Might sound stupid, but: differences between Google memories vs. Snapchat memories?

Also my issue is that I would NEVER upload the photos I have on my hard drive due to privacy issues, but if I had a local model that could categorize photos and whatnot, that would be cool. I have over 10k screenshots / images. Many of them have text on it, so probably need OCR.

> You are a digital hoarder.

Is this meant to be negative? Many videos I have watched on YouTube are now unavailable. I wish I had saved them, too, i.e. I wish I was a digital hoarder, too, but eh, no space for me.

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2. scotty79 ◴[12 Nov 25 15:20 UTC] No.45901278[source]▶
> Is this meant to be negative?

It didn't sound negative to me. I immediately associated it with people who obsessively recorded TV on VHS and their collections are now treasure troves of historic media not available from any other source. You do you.

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3. johnisgood ◴[12 Nov 25 15:22 UTC] No.45901302[source]▶
Yeah, I still have a VHS collection of cartoons I used to watch as a kid.

It did not sound particularly negative to me either, but if it was, I wonder why.