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Yes. God help you if you're looking for a video not made by a popular youtuber. Saw an amazing fried chicken recipe ten years ago and think you can just scroll the results until you see it? Ha, fat chance. You've got about five results and then nothing but whatever horseshit is trendy today.

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Recipes are particularly hopeless. There's a highly formulaic style of recipe video that caught on a year or two ago. Videos built on this formula usually have a title like "I have never eaten such delicious $X", usually with a thumbnail of a liquid being poured over some food, and frequently describe nonsensical or terrible recipes. These videos are useless for actual cooking advice, but somehow get a ton of engagement anyway -- I often get them as recommendations despite not even being interested in cooking videos.

It's probably still in your watch history unless you clear it.

https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

Of course, the actual history search box is confusingly smaller and off to the side of the much larger search box for all of YouTube.

Add it to a playlist (or bookmark it). I don't trust the videos to still be up when I might be interested in them so I've become a little bit of a data hoarder.

Yes, it only takes one scroll through your "Liked" videos and noticing how many are gone to become an archivist. The Youtube folder on my media drive is quite large.

We reach.

I started using a bookmark service because of this.

And after I wrote that sentence I found the original video I was thinking about with a google search. Welp.

Archive everything you like with tools like yt-dlp

Its ability to use cookies from your browser is so much better than the original yt-dl it’s not even funny.

Does yt-dlp support downloading a whole channel at the highest available resolution when that might be different for every video?

Afaik it downloads the highest quality by default

I rip videos but I don’t have a good archival story. Thanks for the yt-dlp tip!

ah yes, Mz. Peaches. Best fried chicken there is.

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