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Here is my second blog post for January and it will be short.

I have been using this open source application called youtube-dl for at least one year. It's pretty useful to download Youtube videos. It also works with Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, 9Gag and other websites with videos.

You can download from the official website or GitHub release page.

The main purpose that I used was to backup some of my old Youtube Channels and the main one I use.

Nothing is eternal so it's always nice to have some backups in case. Every minute, 500 hours of content are uploaded on Youtube which I don't think will stay forever. Also, it could be useful if the internet goes down or a big energy crisis happens which will be very surprising (black swan event) !

There is also Internet Archive that does a wonderful job for archiving "Internet" specially websites as a time machine and for old games but not for Youtube Videos.

[Tip of the post] if you get this kind of error with youtube-dl "ERROR: unable to open for writing: [Errno 2]": the output filename is not supported, you can specify the output filename by adding "-o output.mp4".

Thanks for reading,

JS.

* I still have Youtube Premium!