More people should try out Tubesync. It’s a tool you can host yourself that essentially uses yt-dl as a backend and lets you subscribe to channels, and it’ll download videos as they come out. Gets you away from the ads and you can archive content you like forever.
I wonder if they’ll ever make that impossible. I used to go on a couple of 6 hour drives twice a week for a long time. A lot of the drive didn’t have cell service, as it was thru a bunch of mountains. I ended up making a python script that downloaded podcast episodes to listen to, and to force my brother to watch Your Mom’s House, when he was with me on the drive.
They tried to yoink the youtube-dl source a year or so ago with a DMCA claim. Ultimately it was restored because archivists and historians are actually using it for archival purposes and Google would look like jerks if they pushed too hard against that. I think they hate it but aren’t in a position to come for it yet.
I’m glad that their are contemporary historians and archivists perusing YouTube so my great-great-great-great grandchildren can watch a video game review in which a grown man gets shit on by Bugs Bunny.
As a person who studied history… it’s better for future historians to have more garbage to wade through than less.
Some future historian might make their PhD proving something weird about our time based on three frames in the bugs bunny poop review.
I get why you like it. But in order to use this as intended with my browsing habits, it looks like I’d need to invest in some hefty storage systems and I’m not doing that
More people should try out Tubesync. It’s a tool you can host yourself that essentially uses yt-dl as a backend and lets you subscribe to channels, and it’ll download videos as they come out. Gets you away from the ads and you can archive content you like forever.
https://github.com/meeb/tubesync
I wonder if they’ll ever make that impossible. I used to go on a couple of 6 hour drives twice a week for a long time. A lot of the drive didn’t have cell service, as it was thru a bunch of mountains. I ended up making a python script that downloaded podcast episodes to listen to, and to force my brother to watch Your Mom’s House, when he was with me on the drive.
It was surprisingly simple to do this.
They tried to yoink the youtube-dl source a year or so ago with a DMCA claim. Ultimately it was restored because archivists and historians are actually using it for archival purposes and Google would look like jerks if they pushed too hard against that. I think they hate it but aren’t in a position to come for it yet.
I’m glad that their are contemporary historians and archivists perusing YouTube so my great-great-great-great grandchildren can watch a video game review in which a grown man gets shit on by Bugs Bunny.
As a person who studied history… it’s better for future historians to have more garbage to wade through than less. Some future historian might make their PhD proving something weird about our time based on three frames in the bugs bunny poop review.
Oh shit, that description sounds weirdly familiar, but I can’t remember who it was.
Angry Videogame Nerd.
Imagine if widevine are required to watch any video, that would be disaster.
Similar to that you’ve got tubearchivist, because it’s good to have options
https://www.tubearchivist.com/
I get why you like it. But in order to use this as intended with my browsing habits, it looks like I’d need to invest in some hefty storage systems and I’m not doing that
That’s pretty cool, thanks