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In 2021, there was an effort to archive older unlisted videos uploaded before 2017 before they were automatically made private [1]. It's fairly unlikely your vi

In 2021, there was an effort to archive older unlisted videos uploaded before 2017 before they were automatically made private [1]. It's fairly unlikely your videos were archived by this effort unless they were publicly linked somewhere, but you can still try to find them using a tool like: https://filmot.com/unlistedSearch https://filmot.com/unlistedSearch or https://unlistedvideos.com/ https://unlistedvideos.com/. If you do find any of them on the list, you can try pull them up from the Web Archive [2] and save them from there. [1]: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/YouTube#Older_unlisted_videos_(July_2021) https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/YouTube#Older_unliste... [2]: https://web.archive.org/ https://web.archive.org/

userbinator 5y ago
If you do find any of them on the list, you can try pull them up from the Web Archive [2] and save them from there. It's been over a decade since YT would simply allow you to download the video file directly (does anyone still remember the "s/watch?v=/get_video?video_id=/" trick?), probably for DRM reasons. Even if it did, I doubt the Internet Archive would have bothered to try archiving due to the immense volume that video takes.
- tech234a 5y ago
  From what I understand, the Internet Archive does store some YouTube videos using a special setup, for an example archived video with working playback see: http://web.archive.org/web/20210716000952/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM http://web.archive.org/web/20210716000952/https://www.youtub.... The files can be downloaded from the archive using https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/_OBlgSz8sSM https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.arch....