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Sorry to hear Tom isn't making videos anymore. Anyone know about an archive of his videos available for downloading for later viewing and archiving?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I've already used YT-DLP to archive his channel.

I believe it's 737 videos

[–] jasep 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, but I was looking to see if anyone put in work already to download them and put them in a torrent or other archive outside of YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why would anyone downvote that? Collaboration is great, and is someone already did it, it's amazing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Lemmy downvotes everything. I hid vote counts in my settings

[–] franklin 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

YouTube DLP would work, it's a command line tool, although I'm sure Gui versions exist.

You could download his videos using that, the command are a little confusing but just read the help text for each command and you'll get the hang of it in no time

[–] Unlearned9545 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are dozens of applications that you can point at a youtube channel and it will download it all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Care to help OP out and name one?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I've used jdownloader for YouTube vids years ago. Not sure if it's any good still. Also I did it once Video at a time.

[–] Unlearned9545 2 points 6 months ago

NewPipe is a great youtube viewer for Android, it can also download. FOSS

4K video downloader you only need to pay to use youtube premium or auto download new videos. Free version works on win, mac, and linux.

StreamFab is very expensive, only works on Windows but allows you to auto download from most streaming sites: youtube, of, ticktok, instagram, facebook, netflix, disney plus, espn, crunchyroll, etc etc