ytdata VS browser-extension

As did I, for a long time. But there is another important statistic, a few clicks away that you may have missed. Chris Foo's stats from 2010 on the Archive Team survey. There and then, the deletion rate was a measly ~4%. That means that a lot of those videos were deleted after one year had passed, which would not be explainable by such a use-case as yours alone.

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