YouTubeDrive VS DiskCord

There are even tools that can encode any file into video, so you can use reddit as free storage (kinda). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

dzhang314

Nothing new, or exclusive to rust.

This has been done many many times in the past, one popular tool: https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive

Nice, I’ve seen similar project some time ago https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive

YouTubeDrive

YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos\ (283 comments)

I wrote something just like this with Discord, and I even got it to host full videos which you can play back in browser. It's a good backup service. [0]

I want to expand this in into a fully modular service that you write payloads and scripts for various services, so when you upload a file its spread out across many different providers. When you're downloading, you just go down the list check what still exists, and verify the checksum. This should be stable for many years.

[0] https://github.com/5ut/DiskCord

I love fun projects like this! It seems like you're restricted to 5mb (Imgur's limit), perhaps there is a way to chain multiple images together? I wrote another project in the same scope [1] where it uses Discord files and compiles everything to a massive blob then splits it up into many smaller chunks, giving an (in theory) infinite upload cross domain. Seems to be still going strong.

[1] https://github.com/5ut/DiskCord

The uploader does that, it uploads. I have a small guide to get it working here: https://github.com/5ut/DiskCord/tree/main/Uploader