what is the best way to archive videos online?

[Backyard8405]

what is the best way to archive videos online or is it recommended to just archive locally?

 

[God's Greatest Joe]

Locally + an archive.is snapshot works well. If you want to archive it online, then PreserveTube is your go-to.

 

[⚞⛇⚟]

Normally I use yt-dlp.

 

[Backyard8405]

Normally I use yt-dlp.

doesn't that just help you just download youtube videos locally? or is there a way to use it to archive videos online too?

 

[Backyard8405]

Locally + an archive.is snapshot works well. If you want to archive it online, then PreserveTube is your go-to.

does archive.is videos work as well or just a snapshot of the site page and images?

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

betamax camcorder aimed at your screen

 

[Backyard8405]

Locally + an archive.is snapshot works well. If you want to archive it online, then PreserveTube is your go-to.

also what if you want to archive non-youtube stuff like twitch or kick or rumble etc

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

Upload it here, Null is a server savant and could keep this place running even in the case of a nuclear strike.

 

[Backyard8405]

Upload it here, Null is a server savant and could keep this place running even in the case of a nuclear strike.

that only works for super short videos though as it has to be 200mb or under

 

[⚞⛇⚟]

doesn't that just help you just download youtube videos locally? or is there a way to use it to archive videos online too?

It supports other sites.

 

[Tingle]

Print screen each individual frame of a video you want to keep, save them each as a jpg, forward the possibly tens of thousands of jpg images to your nearest Walgreens pharmacy and pay upwards of what's probably a good $1,000 or so to print them out on 8 1/2"x11" sheets of paper you can store in your personal archive

The real question is how to store the audio.

 

[Secret Boots]

The real question is how to store the audio.

put it on vinyl

 

[Trump's Chosen]

The real question is how to store the audio

Do what the muslims do. Create a cult and turn it into a religious song so it lives on in oral tradition.

 

[stares at error messages]

Normally I use yt-dlp.

yt-dlp integrates a library that is needed to get around youtube's blocks, but it only comes packaged with yt-dlp in the release that won't run: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10630

• curl_cffi (recommended) - Python binding for curl-impersonate. Provides impersonation targets for Chrome, Edge and Safari. Licensed under MIT
  • Can be installed with the curl-cffi group, e.g. pip install "yt-dlp[default,curl-cffi]"
  • Currently included in yt-dlp.exe, yt-dlp_linux and yt-dlp_macos builds

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/bl...a137ebd9d1e22e0e56567/README.md#impersonation

Try both youtube-dl nightly and yt-dlp if they've fixed their issues. Another hack to consider is using an Invidious URL and then try to download it with youtube-dl Ex:

yotube-dl https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=-rnE6OzsYpU

Invidous gets blocked a lot too, so you have to refresh and try [Switch Invidious Instance] link.

Also see archive tool thread.