so, with the whole youtube shenanighans going on, i've made a personal attempt to download a bunch of gun channels. since i don't know every gun channel in existence, i ask you all to give me gun channels and single videos you want me to download. i have a pastebin that i will add channels to, and i'll link it at the bottom of this post. there was this guy on 4/k/ that archived a shitload of videos and provided a link to the full download, and i don't have all the hard drive space to make a redundant backup of it along with a potentially large list of channels for me to archive on top of that. i should also note that, i don't have any idea where to upload the videos to, so i will probably need some advice on that. that being said, this is a general youtube archive thread for potentially endangered channels that can be lost due to youtube's new ToS.
if you want to download videos from youtube but you don't know how to do it, look up youtube-dl and download it. you can download videos by invoking youtube-dl in a terminal or windows CMD/prompt/powershell. below is a good command to just get started:
youtube-dl –continue -f bestvideo+bestaudio/best –write-info-json –write-description –write-all-thumbnails –write-annotations –all-subs –write-sub –add-metadata –merge-output-format mkv -o "%(uploader)s %(uploader_id)s/%(title)s %(id)s.%(ext)s" INSERT_CHANNEL_OR_VIDEO_URL_HERE
if you'd rather output the file a different way, or you want to mess around with the options, then look at the documentation: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md if you'd rather have lower quality, then make sure to change bestvideo+bestaudio/best accordingly.
please have a look at the pastebin first before sending me channel links in case of duplication. everything i'm planning to archive is here, with the 4/k/ guy's stuff included. it also details my progress and what's in the queue to be added later.
https://pastebin.com/Xqsp3hvn