Everyday I see more content lost so I thought I would post an easy tutorial to Zig Forums for downloading JewTube videos for archiving and posterity purposes. This tutorial assumes a Windows operating system.
The program we'll be using is called youtube-dl which is an open source command line program which you can download here rg3.github.io
First download and place youtube-dl somewhere accessible such as a folder on the desktop called youtube-dl. Once the file and folder are present open the folder then RIGHT click an empty white area while holding SHIFT and you will see an option to "Open a command line here" click and you will be presented with a command line in that folder.
Without adding some complications I will show you the easiest way to download a video/channel at 720p (if you want higher like 1080p+ you need to combine audio+video which is easy, but not the mission of this tutorial).
Once you have your command line open in the directory of youtube-dl you enter the following command: youtube-dl -f 22 -c
That is it it! It will begin to download the video(s) to your folder.
CLI options explained:
-f 22, this chooses what quality video and audio you want which in our case is 720p/best audio. If you want to see a list of all available formats like your video/channel is old/360p then replace "-f 22" with "-F" then replace "-f #" with the format you want.
-c, continue/resumes partial downloads
For a full list of command you can type youtube-dl –help. Goyt deserves a mention but depends on installing a ton of other shit to work. I'll try to help out with any questions if thread is any use/isn't deleted.
It is very important that we archive things on LOCAL storage than depending more on their existing infrastructure. Storage is cheap and compression can allow anyone to preserve history which is being deleted or altered by people who want to control information. If you control information then effectively you control a person. You could decide what someone knows and how much does the average person attempt to verify common information?
