youtube-dl-viewer VS tubeup

Im also thankful for projects like yt-dL-viewer that let us experience our own youtube backup again with all the metadata: https://github.com/Mikescher/youtube-dl-viewer

A while ago I did something similar. I'm already downloading various playlists via yt-dlp and wrote a [web interface](https://github.com/Mikescher/youtube-dl-viewer) to view them.

My biggest annoyance at the time was importing my existing videos (and converting them to a streamable format, generating thumbnails and hover-previews etc).

Similar to https://github.com/Mikescher/youtube-dl-viewer that gives you a Web-viewer for your downloaded YouTube videos.

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.