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I have one video in my favorites that is marked as unavailable. This drives me crazy I'll never know what that video was. I only have a couple videos in my fav
by bmurphy1976 5y ago
I have one video in my favorites that is marked as unavailable. This drives me crazy I'll never know what that video was. I only have a couple videos in my favorites and every single one of them is important to me.
If you can back them up.
- brokenmachine 5y agoI have hundreds of missing videos in my various lists. I wish youtube would at least keep the title there so you know what it is that has been lost. Welcome to the alzheimic future.
- yoz-y 5y agoThat’s a feature. If somebody deletes their video then all of the metadata goes with it. I agree that it can be annoying but among other things, it’s the law.
- BeFlatXIII 5y ago> it’s the law Where? Other sites keep the metadata (and even allow new comments on) deleted posts.
- yoz-y 5y agoGDPR text asks to delete all data for which the user withdraws consent to share. IANAL but that seems telling. When a user asks to delete a video it’s deleted, with it goes the title and description.
- brokenmachine 5y agoWe've always been at war with Eastasia.
- yoz-y 5y agoI love me a random 1984 reference… care to explain what’s wrong with honouring user requests to delete their data?
- rozab 5y agoThe idea that all or most of these missing videos are due to GDPR deletion requests is completely incorrect. They are almost all from spurious copyright takedown requests. YouTube has no legal obligation to automatically honor these, and it certainly doesn't have to delete all associated metadata. Framing this issue as an instance of YouTube being respectful of their users data is ridiculous.
- brokenmachine 5y agoIn my opinion, once the video is added to my list, at least the name should become my data. Also I seriously doubt that all those missing videos were requested to be deleted by the user. I'd be willing to bet that 90% of them were taken down by youtube's ridiculous and mostly broken takedown bots. There should be consequences for frivolous takedowns.
- tartoran 5y agoYep. If this worked properly and the metadata went out with the video so should the entry. The blank entry is absolutely useless
- nipponese 5y agoDoes youtube-dl support playlists?
- ReactiveJelly 5y agoyeah it will try to download a whole playlist if you give it the URL of the playlist. Last I tried.
- climb_stealth 5y agoOh yes it does! It is amazing. With the `--download-archive` option you can specify a text file where it stores which videos it already downloaded. So you can periodically make backups of your playlists without unnecessarily downloading videos that you already have.
- coryrc 5y agoI have a script running nightly to backup my playlists
- nipponese 5y agoHow many playlists do you have/create daily?
- coryrc 5y agoJust half a dozen. I only backup a set list of playlists (just an array of playlist IDs in bash I periodically change).
- Ruthalas 5y agoI run a discord server for others downloading youtube content. We maintain a list [1] of content that various members have archived, such that when content is removed from youtube, people can direct inquiries to contributors who have archived that content. It's a small way to keep track of what things have been successfully archived. We are currently organizing some efforts to find and download unlisted videos. Feel free to check us out here: https://discord.gg/EJvS4kf https://discord.gg/EJvS4kf [1] https://tinyurl.com/v4rpe9w https://tinyurl.com/v4rpe9w
- avibhu 5y agoI had the same problem with a few old videos in my favourites. Google search for the alphanumeric text after "watch?v=" in the URL of the video. In most cases, you will find some information about the video from pages where it might have been embedded.
- giantrobot 5y agoI despise the memory hole Google dumps things into. As far as YouTube is concerned a deleted video might as well never have existed.
- CydeWeys 5y agoThe alternative, that Google doesn't delete stuff that people want deleted, is worse. They can't win either way.
- giantrobot 5y agoThey could delete the video content and leave a sanitized version of the metadata. For instance leave the post date and title while removing the description and owner information. Searching for a video's URL might let you find some metadata about it. Unfortunately YouTube encourages social media insulation so a video might have only ever been referenced inside of YouTube with no inbound links from the web.
- CydeWeys 5y agoYou can easily imagine situations for which the title itself contains information that someone would rather have deleted. Per GDPR and similar regs, if you want that deleted, it has to be. It's the uploader's video, and they retain ownership of it. If they want it gone, it'll be gone. Since they own the IP, their interests matter more than some random viewer who happened to add it to a playlist some time in the past.