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Because I have seen some faggots in the Jirad thread linking videos without downloading and uploading them to The Farms, here is a beginner-friendly guide of downloading videos with Open Video Downloader, which is a Graphical User Interface for yt-dlp, and uploading them to the Farms.

1) Click this link: https://github.com/StefanLobbenmeier/youtube-dl-gui
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2) Go to the releases section and download the windows executable version.
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3) When the executable is finished downloading, double-click it and you will see this:

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Wait for ffmpeg, ffprobe and yt-dlp to install.

4) To download a video, copy the Youtube URL into the white bar and click the add symbol ("+")
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It should like this:
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5) ALWAYS choose between 720p, 480p or 360p so the video can stay under 200 MB and can be uploaded to The Farms. Make sure to select the resolution on both options. Also, click the Load button so the size of the video can be determined before downloading and select Video + Audio on both selections.
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6) Click the green download button and wait for the video to download. When it's downloaded and it's under the 200 MB then it can be uploaded to The Farms.

7) To upload the video to the farms click the three dots for more options and then click the "Insert Video" to upload your video.
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You're Done.

 

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Anyone got good ideas for video compressors? I'm trying to upload a local copy on a thread and the online service I'm using adds a watermark.
 
What he said. If you're on a computer, ffmpeg runs on windows, linux, and mac. In the OP of this thread, Null gives a rundown on it's use in the section Dealing with Large Videos and Irregular Formats.
 
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Is camas.unddit down for good? Are there any working alternatives to this; for recovering deleted reddit posts/profiles?

-also-

Are there any specialized tools for recovering deleted deviantart profiles? I tried using the jack-of-all-trades wayback sites on a particular page, to no avail.
 
Nitter's death takes my Twitter thread-quoting script with it. Here's the bare-bones for one that works on Twitter.com:
JavaScript: 
function formatIsoDate(dateString) {
    let dr = /(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})T(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}).*Z/
    let [_, date, time, ...rest] = dr.exec(dateString);
    return `${date} ${time} UTC`;
}

function quoteTweet(tweet) {
    let [displayName, accountName] = Array.from(
        tweet.querySelector("[data-testid='User-Name']").
        querySelectorAll("a")
    ).map(e => e.textContent);
    let publishedTime = tweet.querySelector("time").dateTime;
    let date = formatIsoDate(publishedTime);

    let tweetText = tweet.querySelector("[data-testid=tweetText]").textContent;
    var main = `[B]${displayName} • ${accountName} • ${date}[/B]\n\n${tweetText}`;

    let cardAnchor = tweet.querySelector("[data-testid^=card]")?.querySelector("a");
    if (cardAnchor) {
        let label = cardAnchor.ariaLabel;
        let url = cardAnchor.href;
        main += `\n[URL="${url}"]${label}[/URL]`
    }
    return main;
}

let conversation = document.querySelector("[aria-label='Timeline: Conversation']");
let tweets = Array.from(conversation.querySelectorAll("[data-testid=tweet]"));
tweets.map(t => quoteTweet(t)).join("\n\n")

Limitations:
  • Not a copy-and-go bookmarklet yet.
  • Grabs more than the thread (ie replies).
  • You have to scroll somewhat (but not too much!) to get threads to load.
  • Doesn't handle quote tweets.
  • Doesn't handle images with alt text.
Twitter's frontend is an unholy, deeply nested React mess that lazy-loads basically everything but is also ungodly slow. It actually unloads earlier tweets as you scroll, while still being as quick as a braindead tortoise.

I'm not sure if it's possible to get a reliable quote-script to work but this (currently!) does at least something.
 
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Would someone please tell me what magic I need to use to get any of the archive.whatevers to work? I wanna say like up to 6 months ago I was able to archive with no problem and then overnight I got error messages like this.
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This error happens if I try to go to the site directly or if I click an already archived link in a thread. I've been having some success with Ghost Archive but it tends to hangup on me randomly if I'm trying to archive something that's never been archived before. Any twitter archives are hit or miss for me as even if it gets archived sometimes the capture shows twitter asking me to refresh. I am on a VPN but it never mattered before. Forgive me if this was already figured out and I missed it. I'm not the brightest and am very frustrated.
 
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Would someone please tell me what magic I need to use to get any of the archive.whatevers to work?
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You didn't mention the browser you're using, but it looks like Chrome/Brave. Try installing Firefox with no addons and see if the site works. If it does, you can narrow down the cause in your other browser (maybe a bad extension, block list, or something similar). Someone also suggested clearing all the cookies for archive.* domains in the browser and that solved an issue a couple of us were having a while back.

It could also be caused by using Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1), but if you're using a VPN that shouldn't come into play.
 
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You didn't mention the browser you're using, but it looks like Chrome/Brave. Try installing Firefox with no addons and see if the site works. If it does, you can narrow down the cause in your other browser (maybe a bad extension, block list, or something similar). Someone also suggested clearing all the cookies for archive.* domains in the browser and that solved an issue a couple of us were having a while back.

It could also be caused by using Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1), but if you're using a VPN that shouldn't come into play.
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Thank you for the advice and yes I am using Brave. Sorry for leaving that out. Unfortunately none of it worked. I've tried using Firefox but I get the same exact issue, it tries forever to load and eventually I get the error screen.
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I also failed to mention that on Brave that once I get the error screen the tab keeps trying to reload itself. After it's gave up I'll get the spinny loading circle at the top on the tab, the refresh button turns into an X, and sometimes the page goes blank only for the error screen to pop back up or sometimes it just stays that way. This only happens for the archive.whatevers and it is beyond bizarre.

Clearing cookies did seem to fix the errors I was having for Ghost Archive. Thank you for reminding me of something I completely forgot was even a thing.
 
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I'm having a devil of a time trying to upload and embed a video downloaded from Bitchute - I've run it through the ffmpeg with the recommended parameters, and tried scaling it to 640x320 plus a reduced bitrate. OG filesize is ~80Mb and after downsizing it's under 50, but every time I just get 'something went wrong'.
I can kinda tell a video isn't going to upload successfully when it reaches 100% upload and doesn't switch to 'Loading Video' on the prompt. I assume there's some kind of integrity check happening at that point and for whatever reason, the site's rejecting the file as not being valid.
I had a look through the OP and thread but apologies if I missed anything - Is there anything else I can try?
I attached the video to this post (not inline, just as an attachment) and while that appeared to work OK during editing, the file then dissapeared when I posted.
 
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I'm having a devil of a time trying to upload and embed a video downloaded from Bitchute - I've run it through the ffmpeg with the recommended parameters, and tried scaling it to 640x320 plus a reduced bitrate. OG filesize is ~80Mb and after downsizing it's under 50, but every time I just get 'something went wrong'.
I can kinda tell a video isn't going to upload successfully when it reaches 100% upload and doesn't switch to 'Loading Video' on the prompt. I assume there's some kind of integrity check happening at that point and for whatever reason, the site's rejecting the file as not being valid.
I had a look through the OP and thread but apologies if I missed anything - Is there anything else I can try?
I attached the video to this post (not inline, just as an attachment) and while that appeared to work OK during editing, the file then dissapeared when I posted.
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I've been having issues uploading videos today as well it may not be the video but the ddos attack. If you have access to tor try uploading it via that.
 
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GenociderSyo said:
I've been having issues uploading videos today as well it may not be the video but the ddos attack. If you have access to tor try uploading it via that.
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Legend, thank you, that worked. I had run out of ideas, was about to start messing with audio formats. The site has been behaving otherwise flawlessly for me recently so I didn't consider it could be something like that.
 
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Google is axing cached webpages from search results, tells everyone to use Internet Archive instead

Google has removed cache links from search results. They aren't removing access to Google Cache yet, but they might in the future. When Efrem Zelony-Mindell was being memory holed by art websites, I think I was able to archive some of the articles only because they were still in Google Cache temporarily.

I will probably add Bing Cache to my repertoire. I don't know if it has a clean way to search by URL like this:

Code: 
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.google.com

Yandex also has cache, but again, when I delete the cruft from their URL including what looks like unique keys it gives a 404.
 
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