I just downloaded the entire Classic Chicago Television youtube channel on a whim

a TorrentFreak article got me spooked so I fired up the ol’ yt-dlp. Got the entire channel, including comments, description metadata, and thumbnail images.

A significant number of videos were actually unavailable because of an odd YouTube bug where 15+ year old videos were listed as “currently being processed”. I may re-run this later (since I ran it in archive file mode) to get the missing videos, as it seems there may be about 300 out of 4911 videos missing.

NikkiNikkiNikki,
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Plan to do this with a lot of the entertainment videos I watch, considering how ban happy some websites have been with content creators, being able to still see their craft after it is gone is worthwhile.

Just need to buy a fuckton of storage though

empireOfLove,

Me too. There’s a couple channels I’ve downloaded in their entirety, but they’re nothing like the size of this one.

MossyFeathers,

Nice! What’re you gonna do with them? Are you gonna upload them somewhere, or just hold onto them?

empireOfLove,

They still happily exist on YouTube- for now. So no point in re-hosting, they’ll get squirreled away into the Giant Hard Drive of Doom.

If something happens to the actual archive project in the near future, I’ll likely section them up into 20gb pieces and post them out on a torrent someplace.

Appoxo,
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Just upload it to archive.org before your backup dies. No need to hoard it for yourself.

empireOfLove,

Nah. IA doesn’t need to deal with this volume of shit and they already have enough of a hard time dealing with copyright trolls.

If this channel is impacted in the future, I’ll probably put out a few torrents with the videos and post them here.

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