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?
I haven’t used it before, but this apparently does it:
That being said, it only indexes what users have submitted. So while it has some other unlisted videos from Julian Smith, as of this writing, nobody has submitted “I’m a Morning Person”.
It is now. ;-)
Cheers for the site!No problem. It looks like you’re not the only frustrated user trying to find various of his old videos:
You’d need a constantly growing database of all the videos on there, rechecking all of them every once in a while to see if they are still/now unlisted… maybe if you had infinite youtube api credits… maybe.
Yeah, that sounds unreasonable. I guess I’ll have to use yt-dlp more to backup videos I enjoy.
Yeah, and it still wouldn’t help you for deleted/privated stuff. You have to mirror the good stuff if you want it around.
Hmm.
If it’s downloaded and all the associated metadata embedded — which
yt-dlpdoes 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-dlptries 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.
There’s a video from 14 years ago I wish I could find again but it was removed for ToS violations (I guess because a kid pukes? I don’t know). It made me really want to start archiving stuff on there
Yeah, now that I got the storage I save a whole lot more locally. GOG offline installers is probably the largest folder on my NAS though. :)
