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by toomuchtodo 725 days ago
Could you support using the Internet Archive as the content source as well?
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Would that not be an abuse of the IA's resources? (genuine question, not meant to sound accusatory)
Based on my understanding of this tool, it is simply a playlist generator. This could create playlists of Internet Archive content. If that is inaccurate, I am happy to be corrected.
Generating playlists is one of the things that Watchlist does. Here are a few more: 1) You can actually set very flexible notification schedules and use a medium of your choice (email, webpush) to receive the notifications about new/unwatched videos in a list.

2) You can keep track of your progress by marking the videos in a list Watched/Unwatched. This is good if you’re taking a course on YouTube.

A few things I am building in near future if all goes well: 1) Adding the “tags” functionality which will suggest similar channels to users based on the kind of videos & channels they’ve added.

2) A video summary feature which will send a short summary of the video to you.

This is helpful! I will reach out via email.
Can you please elaborate a little?