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Yes. God help you if you're looking for a video not made by a popular youtuber. Saw an amazing fried chicken recipe ten years ago and think you can just scroll

by causi 4y ago

Yes. God help you if you're looking for a video not made by a popular youtuber. Saw an amazing fried chicken recipe ten years ago and think you can just scroll the results until you see it? Ha, fat chance. You've got about five results and then nothing but whatever horseshit is trendy today.

grepfru_it 4y ago
I started using a bookmark service because of this. And after I wrote that sentence I found the original video I was thinking about with a google search. Welp.
- ugjka 4y ago
  Archive everything you like with tools like yt-dlp
  - philistine 4y ago
    Its ability to use cookies from your browser is so much better than the original yt-dl it’s not even funny.
  - causi 4y ago
    Does yt-dlp support downloading a whole channel at the highest available resolution when that might be different for every video?
    - ugjka 4y ago
      Afaik it downloads the highest quality by default
  - grepfru_it 4y ago
    I rip videos but I don’t have a good archival story. Thanks for the yt-dlp tip!
JKCalhoun 4y ago
Add it to a playlist (or bookmark it). I don't trust the videos to still be up when I might be interested in them so I've become a little bit of a data hoarder.
- causi 4y ago
  Yes, it only takes one scroll through your "Liked" videos and noticing how many are gone to become an archivist. The Youtube folder on my media drive is quite large.
  - JKCalhoun 4y ago
    We reach.
Kye 4y ago
It's probably still in your watch history unless you clear it. https://www.youtube.com/feed/history https://www.youtube.com/feed/history Of course, the actual history search box is confusingly smaller and off to the side of the much larger search box for all of YouTube.
mattanimation 4y ago
ah yes, Mz. Peaches. Best fried chicken there is.
duskwuff 4y ago
Recipes are particularly hopeless. There's a highly formulaic style of recipe video that caught on a year or two ago. Videos built on this formula usually have a title like "I have never eaten such delicious $X", usually with a thumbnail of a liquid being poured over some food, and frequently describe nonsensical or terrible recipes. These videos are useless for actual cooking advice, but somehow get a ton of engagement anyway -- I often get them as recommendations despite not even being interested in cooking videos.

by causi 4y ago

grepfru_it 4y ago

I started using a bookmark service because of this. And after I wrote that sentence I found the original video I was thinking about with a google search. Welp.

ugjka 4y ago
Archive everything you like with tools like yt-dlp
- philistine 4y ago
  Its ability to use cookies from your browser is so much better than the original yt-dl it’s not even funny.
- causi 4y ago
  Does yt-dlp support downloading a whole channel at the highest available resolution when that might be different for every video?
  - ugjka 4y ago
    Afaik it downloads the highest quality by default
- grepfru_it 4y ago
  I rip videos but I don’t have a good archival story. Thanks for the yt-dlp tip!

JKCalhoun 4y ago

Add it to a playlist (or bookmark it). I don't trust the videos to still be up when I might be interested in them so I've become a little bit of a data hoarder.

causi 4y ago
Yes, it only takes one scroll through your "Liked" videos and noticing how many are gone to become an archivist. The Youtube folder on my media drive is quite large.
- JKCalhoun 4y ago
  We reach.

Kye 4y ago

It's probably still in your watch history unless you clear it. https://www.youtube.com/feed/history https://www.youtube.com/feed/history Of course, the actual history search box is confusingly smaller and off to the side of the much larger search box for all of YouTube.

mattanimation 4y ago

ah yes, Mz. Peaches. Best fried chicken there is.

duskwuff 4y ago

Recipes are particularly hopeless. There's a highly formulaic style of recipe video that caught on a year or two ago. Videos built on this formula usually have a title like "I have never eaten such delicious $X", usually with a thumbnail of a liquid being poured over some food, and frequently describe nonsensical or terrible recipes. These videos are useless for actual cooking advice, but somehow get a ton of engagement anyway -- I often get them as recommendations despite not even being interested in cooking videos.