a TorrentFreak article got me spooked so I fired up the ol’ yt-dlp. Got the entire channel, including comments, description metadata, and thumbnail images.

A significant number of videos were actually unavailable because of an odd YouTube bug where 15+ year old videos were listed as “currently being processed”. I may re-run this later (since I ran it in archive file mode) to get the missing videos, as it seems there may be about 300 out of 4911 videos missing.

      • Asimo@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Ah found in GitHub. For some reason I never put 2 and 2 together to automate YouTube video downloads. What a noob hah.

        • empireOfLoveOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, the yt-dlp fork is still actively maintained and has very nice results, glad you found it.