I spent way too long trying to find I’m a Morning Person made by Julian Smith and found out it has since been unlisted on youtube.
Only reason I finally found it was a direct link to it on another forum which appeared on search page 5 on duckduckgo.

It got me thinking; Is there any service that lists unlisted youtube videos?
Would it be possible to create?

  • talEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Hmm.

    If it’s downloaded and all the associated metadata embedded — which yt-dlp does have the ability to do, but isn’t the default — it’d be possible to index downloaded videos and create some kind of search engine for magnet links for saved YouTube videos.

    EDIT: Oh, though I don’t know whether yt-dlp tries to create identical files on different people’s systems. If it embeds a “downloaded” timestamp or something like that, there might not be a single hash that refers to all downloaded copies.