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?

  • Tyoda@lemm.ee
    3·
    2 days ago

    Yeah, and it still wouldn’t help you for deleted/privated stuff. You have to mirror the good stuff if you want it around.

    • 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.