internet archive for youtube videos? view deleted youtube videos?

submitted by yoke from self.Internet

there's libgen for books (banned ones as well depending on where ya are)

there's reveddit (reveddit.com) for banned reddit posts

there's wikileaks for all kinda shit

but my impression is that, since videos are larger, a video archive is more difficult than text archives.

then recently i came across odysee, an alternative of youtube at some scale not run by the russians or chinese, a truly okay alternative

i'm sure gab has its alternative youtube channels, maybe.

but...is there an archive for youtube / spotify?

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[–]Jesus-Christ 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

To add to this, I'd like a program that automatically downloads videos from youtube channels as soon as they get uploaded.

[–]yoke[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

just use the recency flags from youtube-dl with a crontab that scans fast enough (be sure to avoid blocks from youtube idk if there are any but it seems likely), as youtube-dl don't redo anything

edit: another way is to perhaps use some sorta 'youtube-bell-api'

edit2: one can further expand this into uploading this to a video site he likes automatically just after that youtube channel got uploaded, an immediate video mirror service. that'd be interesting. like 'if your channel has over 10k subs and my site likes your channel, and your video often gets banned, then my site's gonna mirror them for you', that kinda thing.

[–]Drewski 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

altcensored.com has a lot of deleted youtube videos.

[–]yoke[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

thx

edit: another way to expand this 'fruit of victory' is to use alexa site info (just google these three words) and put the site you mentioned into it. alexa pops out related sites. or use some 'google-fu' to search related sites by i haven't practiced that (i know there are reverse-engineering / pentesting / information seucrity books about it though, first heard the word 'google-fu' from one such book i forgot though...)

edit2: i think i'd put together a github project called 'internet-nosedive' or something (english not my mother tongue pls come up with a fancy project name XD) if i got time cause all the instructions now are how to set up pgp keys for drugs on tor

[–]slushpilot 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You can use youtube-dl if you want to archive it yourself.

[–]yoke[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah, that's a very nice project.

[–]LarrySwinger2 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

A significant portion of Youtube videos are archived by archive.org. You can try this link:

https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/[VIDEO ID]

where you replace [VIDEO ID] by the video ID. If they have it, it redirects you immediately to the video and you can easily download it as well.

[–]yoke[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

edit: ...okay, i know wayback machine for quite a while i just forgot to bring it up. are there any other alternatives? even if it's not something like wayback machine or the pirate bay, just something like odysee, but not paid like nebula (btw plz list nebula / netflix hacks that's not checking the torrent sites if you have something!)

original comment:thanks!

youtube-dl is also a great project, allows ppl to download youtube (and a couple dozen porno sites XD) in bulk (by views, by user, by time, etc.) check it out, it's great.

[–]LarrySwinger2 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You can also try to determine the title by startpaging the ID, and then use the exact title as a search term to find a mirror of it.

[–]yoke[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

yeah that also helps. also duckduckgo it.

[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I still mention jewgle because their results are better so long as they aren't censored. This is obscure enough not to be censored. I changed it to "startpaging," though; I think I'm going to start using that.

[–]yoke[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

'jewgle' lol