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Yes. I always feel violated when a Liked video or a Watch Later video is suddenly gone without even the video title available.

j45 3y ago
I almost feel like I should have a backup of my BB liked or saved videos
- flir 3y ago
  A dash of yt-dlp and a cron job. If you've got a media server, it's the way to go for subscribing to content you're interested in.
  - avhon1 3y ago
    The tricky bit is that you have to get your youtube cookie in order for yt-dlp to get your own liked videos. I expect it to be a lot more LoC to authenticate and get the cookie than to do everything else (which is a one-liner in yt-dlp), so I just do it manually once in a while. yt-dlp -f "best[height<=480][fps<=30]"+bestaudio --cookies cookies.txt --download-archive archive.txt --all-subs --embed-subs --embed-metadata --merge-output-format mkv --sponsorblock-mark all -o "%(channel)s/(%(upload_date)s) %(fulltitle)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=LL"
    - flir 3y ago
      I solved this by making my own "To watch..." playlist which was available to anyone who had the link. But I'm one of those "solve the unstable server by rebooting it once a day" guys, so...
    - crtasm 3y ago
      If you're logged in on a browser on the same machine you can use the --cookies-from-browser option instead of a cookies.txt
    - j45 3y ago
      For all the responses to my post, I’m glad I did Lots to dive into.
- kmfrk 3y ago
  I recently found ytdl-sub which is basically a metadata wrapper around yt-dlp to help you save videos in a format library software like Plex etc supports. Rather than having some horribly named videos with metadata files just taking up space. https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub
  - j45 3y ago
    This looks handy thanks! Naming is definitely the hardest problem in coding and file naming. Part of me feels like chaining a few of these tools into a docker project.
- progman32 3y ago
  There's also tube archivist, which is a whole archival front end and back end. Bit more complicated to set up but once you do, you also get a nice web UI of your videos that is similar to YouTube. It even shows comments.

j45 3y ago

I almost feel like I should have a backup of my BB liked or saved videos

flir 3y ago
A dash of yt-dlp and a cron job. If you've got a media server, it's the way to go for subscribing to content you're interested in.
- avhon1 3y ago
  The tricky bit is that you have to get your youtube cookie in order for yt-dlp to get your own liked videos. I expect it to be a lot more LoC to authenticate and get the cookie than to do everything else (which is a one-liner in yt-dlp), so I just do it manually once in a while. yt-dlp -f "best[height<=480][fps<=30]"+bestaudio --cookies cookies.txt --download-archive archive.txt --all-subs --embed-subs --embed-metadata --merge-output-format mkv --sponsorblock-mark all -o "%(channel)s/(%(upload_date)s) %(fulltitle)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=LL"
  - flir 3y ago
    I solved this by making my own "To watch..." playlist which was available to anyone who had the link. But I'm one of those "solve the unstable server by rebooting it once a day" guys, so...
  - crtasm 3y ago
    If you're logged in on a browser on the same machine you can use the --cookies-from-browser option instead of a cookies.txt
  - j45 3y ago
    For all the responses to my post, I’m glad I did Lots to dive into.
kmfrk 3y ago
I recently found ytdl-sub which is basically a metadata wrapper around yt-dlp to help you save videos in a format library software like Plex etc supports. Rather than having some horribly named videos with metadata files just taking up space. https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub
- j45 3y ago
  This looks handy thanks! Naming is definitely the hardest problem in coding and file naming. Part of me feels like chaining a few of these tools into a docker project.
progman32 3y ago
There's also tube archivist, which is a whole archival front end and back end. Bit more complicated to set up but once you do, you also get a nice web UI of your videos that is similar to YouTube. It even shows comments.