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Youtube also does its best to prevent you from downloading videos, to leave no record of the past.

If you’re comfortable in the terminal the following works great for archiving: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

I had issues with youtube severely capping my download speeds using youtube-dl, but had success with https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Doh. This is what I initially wanted to link to in the comment. yt-dlp definitely is the better fork, and they seem to address YouTube breaking changes faster than youtube-dl.

Don’t give them ideas :D

They will start selling the past to us. YouTube Archive Plus.

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