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Literally everything.

1. I download whole channels if there's a series I want to watch.

2. I download music, since youtube is a really quite nice music library.

3. I download long videos before I watch it, because it's just more pleasant to rewind the thing when it's already on your SSD. Also, it won't freeze spoiling a beautiful scene because of some stupid WiFi problem.

4. Even if I don't download it before watching, I still use mpv to watch it, which uses youtube-dl internally, because mpv is a much nicer video-player than what you can have in a browser.

And I'm sure I forgot some important use-cases. Browsers are evil, js-apps are stupid, don't use them, if you can.

If you feel like chatting with others who also archive YouTube content, consider stopping by my discord server: https://discord.gg/xjj538vD

We maintain a central list [1] of content that various members have archived, such that when content is removed from YouTube, people can direct inquiries to contributors who have archived that content.

It's a small way to keep track of what things have been successfully archived, and occasionally direct efforts to preserve specific content.

[1] https://tinyurl.com/v4rpe9w

What is your workflow for this?

this effectively extracts media urls from the current page, puts them into a m3u file and let's you open it with any application https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-with/

mpv itself uses ytdl (or others) for accessing streming sites and will buffer the whole vid if you crank up cache settings like:

  cache=yes
  demuxer-max-bytes=5G
  demuxer-max-back-bytes=5G
  prefetch-playlist=yes
  force-seekable=yes

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