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Maddie
I want to archive a controversial youtubers entire channel but some of there videos dont show up in there channel, but are not deleted. Some kind of shadow video ban?
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Frogging101
Unlisted?
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Frogging101
A video uploader can set videos as unlisted, meaning they're not deleted but they can only be accessed with a link, or if it's in a playlist
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Maddie
No, thay arwnt unlisted, i can find some of them by searching
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Maddie
Frogging101: heres an example of a video I found by searching but doesn't show up on there channel page
youtube.com/watch?v=UCCHR8PK5g4
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Maddie
I don't really have an google account but thought about makeing one to get accsess to the youtube api, I think it might help?
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JAA
Maddie: YouTube recently (early December?) split up the video list into separate tabs. That video is listed on
youtube.com/@LarsAndersenFrihed/streams because it was a live stream.
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Maddie
:O?
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Maddie
Sorry for late response but :O... But I'm still pretty sure I've seen another video that I can't find anyware, that wasn't a live stream; Do you know if youtube-dl checks the live streams tab or if I have to do something extra to make sure those too get downloaded?
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JAA
I haven't seen any videos that appear on none of the three tabs, so if you have an example, I'd like to know.
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JAA
No idea about youtube-dl, but yt-dlp supports it if you give it the channel URL (*not* a tab URL).
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Maddie
Perhaps I'll switch to dlp; what do you mean by three tabs? Only know about 2 now.
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JAA
Videos, streams, and live
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Maddie
Oh.
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JAA
Er, shorts, not streams.
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Maddie
Is there ANY reason to use youtube-dl instead of yt-dlp? Could I just switch all my scripts over to it? Also thank you so much for the page you sent, now I have more of the videos.
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hexa-
the former is utterly unmaintained
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Maddie
Wow, yt-dlp feels much faster.
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thuban
hexa-: youtube-dl is now under new management and being maintained again, with the raison d'etre of targeting old-ass python versions (and not making any breaking interface changes)
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thuban
but yeah, in general people are working on & should be using yt-dlp
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hexa-
yikes
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hexa-
yt-dlp gained attraction when it fixed a bug that made downloads from youtube fast again
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thuban
"For people concerned that Python 2 is a couple of years beyond EOL, one case that I support could survive until 2038, or the end of DVB-T2 broadcasting if that comes sooner. That's the timescale of deployed embedded applications" :)
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hexa-
silly
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thuban
quixotic, but i figure it's not hurting anybody
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hexa-
people who assume using python2 is safe maybe?
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thuban
that failure is upstream