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youtube-dl has actually been really useful for backing up my own channel. Simply passing it a channel url and it will download everything in the best quality av

by dawnerd 10y ago

youtube-dl has actually been really useful for backing up my own channel. Simply passing it a channel url and it will download everything in the best quality available.

balac 10y ago
Shouldn't you already have the source videos for you channel?
- semi-extrinsic 10y ago
  Backing it up from Youtube is likely a better solution since he doesn't have to upload everything twice on a (probably) slow uplink ADSL line.
  - dawnerd 10y ago
    Oh I have gigabit, so that's not an issue. But I can totally seeing that being an issue.
- dawnerd 10y ago
  For most of them no. A lot were school projects that only existed on youtube or smaller things that were uploaded from my phone etc.
lern_too_spel 10y ago
Google Takeout downloads the originals, which is better than the highest quality reencode.
- dawnerd 10y ago
  I had no idea about that, thats awesome, thanks!
- i336_ 10y ago
  Ooooh wow. That's a lot of diskspace...