browser-extension VS tubeup

Seconding tubearchivist. One of the killer features IMO is the browser extension [0], which adds a button on every video to send that video to the server to archive.

[0] https://github.com/tubearchivist/browser-extension

And of course, let’s not forget the browser extension Tube Archivist Companion, which got basically a rewrite with v0.1.0. Download and subscribe buttons are now injected directly into the YouTube page, so very conveniently, you can send links from YouTube to Tube Archivist with just one click as you browse, see some screenshots and installation instructions here.

With the Tube Archivist Companion, your friendly browser extension, you can: Send links from youtube.com to Tube Archivist to download or subscribe to things Sync your cookies for yt-dlp to for example - among many things - subscribe to your liked or to your watch later playlists and to feed that automatically into Tube Archivist.

I've implemented the cookie parsing option for the browser extension a few days ago, so any bug reports are very welcome, please open an issue here: https://github.com/tubearchivist/browser-extension

If you want to provide an option to upload artifacts to the Internet Archive, you could crib off of https://github.com/bibanon/tubeup

ArchiveTeam recommends the use of TubeUp.py, which acts as a wrapper for yt-dl to use for comprehensive archival, in addition to automatically uploading the content to the Internet Archive.

What I do is use a tool called tubeup. It will download a YouTube link you give it and automatically upload it to archive.org. It can take single videos or even whole playlists. That way, if it gets removed from YouTube, I know where to find it again, and I don't have to manage local copies or use up own cloud storage.

This can automate a LOT of the manual work: https://github.com/bibanon/tubeup

You could pass a playlist of your liked videos to https://github.com/bibanon/tubeup

I have tried the tubeup project but I spent most of the day trying to make that work but to no avail (I am working on macos Big Sur). I have also seen this post from what seems to be one of the staff, but it seems like a very long and complicated process to take just to archive YouTube videos.