Comment by jchw
2 years ago
I know there are probably a ton of much more academic use cases for this kind of tool, but for me personally, I'm mostly interested to use it to figure out what exactly got removed from a playlist (or liked videos or etc.) because it always bothers me when I can't remember what's no longer there.
Yes. I always feel violated when a Liked video or a Watch Later video is suddenly gone without even the video title available.
I almost feel like I should have a backup of my BB liked or saved videos
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
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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.
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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.
Filmot has a userscript for this that searches their archive for metadata and shows thumbnails from the Wayback Machine: https://filmot.com/moresearch