[nomilk]

Occasionally my personal/literature/academic/tech notes link to a youtube source, but when clicking on it I find the video has vanished with no way of knowing what it was or even what it was called (it's sometimes impossible to track down an identical/replacement source). I lost many valuable references that way.

Wayback machine solves for webpages, but nothing I'm aware of (short of youtube-dl-ing the video yourself and storing it somewhere openly, probably at risk of various infringements) solves this. Quite a lot of hassle for something rather simple.

It would be great to be able to immortalise them on a per-video basis, so if it's important enough, we can be sure that references made to the content will still be there in the future when needed.

[0cf8612b2e1e]

I do not see how that becomes possible without the Internet archive effectively mirroring a large percentage of YouTube. I recall at one point, IA wanted to archive just the video metadata and realized even that would be technically challenging.

[judge2020]

IA does seems to archive YT video content, at least last time I tried to watch a deleted but popular video.

[sodality2]

Only if a user chooses to submit the URL - I think parent comment is referring to an organized attempt by IA to archive a significant portion of YT's videos.

[RockRobotRock]

It would be nice to prioritize videos which are deemed at "high risk" of being deleted, with bayes statistics or machine learning or something like that.

[svnpenn]

Any video you care about, you need to make it your own responsibility to backup the metadata and/or streams. If you're lucky you can internet search the video ID to get the metadata, even after deletion.

[toomuchtodo]

https://github.com/bibanon/tubeup