Download: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases

Info: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

I highly recommend you all start to archive videos. The social media platforms do not make it easy for you to download/save media on purpose. Yt-dlp makes it very easy to save data from various sources to your local drive.

I've been doing this for years and have a large amount of videos that I think will one day be important to show people that are wondering "how did we get here". I'll be like, "well i'm glad you asked..... these people did this, then this group did this, etc."

Here is a config file that you can use to help get you started, and if you have any questions about how to use this or get it working please don't hesitate to ask. There is no stupid questions so it doesn't matter how basic you think it is. I had to put double spaces to make the format of this look correct, you may have to remove them once you save this as a ~/.yt-dlp/config file on your own machine.

--sleep-requests 1

--min-sleep-interval 1

--max-sleep-interval 3

--playlist-random

--o ~/Downloads/INCOMING/%(title)s.%(ext)s

--throttled-rate 1M

--retries 20

--retry-sleep linear=1::2

--retry-sleep fragment:exp=1:20

--restrict-filenames

--no-overwrites

--write-description

--write-info-json

--no-clean-info-json

--no-keep-fragments

--add-metadata

--write-auto-subs

Occasionally you will have to add "--cookies-from-browser firefox" to the yt-dlp command to get it to work.

example: yt-dlp g0v444PsmO0 --cookies-from-browser firefox

You can paste the video ID from youtube like I did above, or you can paste the entire URL.

Here is a list of supported sites: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites.md

There are MANY more than just youtube included.