Hello, thanks for stopping by. I'm currently in the process of saving the Super Replays from the classic team for myself, kind of putting my money where my mouth is regarding a previous response I made about the shuttering of Game Informer.

After what seems to be the loss of the entire GI website I starting pulling the videos that were near and dear to me, as best I can anyways. However thinking over it the last couple days I'm wondering how much I should archive and if I should perhaps put in somewhere others can access it?

That's where this post comes in, I'm currently utilizing a free version of 4k Downloader as, well, frankly I don't trust the other programs that I looked over to be malware. If someone has suggestions I'm listening and would appreciate it. The problem with the free 4k is the 10 vids a day limit. That being said if other are interested and perhaps would like me to go forward then I'll have to go ahead and grab a license from them and just get it down much much faster.

So that comes to my final question, how do I let others access this stuff assuming the channel goes belly up like the website? Is this a self hosting situation? If any could point me in a direction I'll start educating myself. I know this post maybe slightly out of the scope of gaming but I wanted to potentially hear from you all and gauge any interest. Otherwise I'll just keep pecking at the playlists only important to me.

Thanks, -Dud

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yt-dlp is generally the best open source tool for downloading/backing up videos from the internet. Despite the name, it works with thousands of video streaming sites, not just youtube. Completely free. I would never pay for a video downloading software.

It is command line based though. I'm sure there are forks with a UI, but I'm not familiar with them. There is a fairly detailed wiki for it, and a discord support channel. The defaults are fine for youtube back ups.

I would reccomend uploading whatever you back up to the Internet Archive. Then you aren't responsible for hosting, and it's available to the public.

[–] Dud@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I'll take a look at that program, only thing I'm digging about the 4k Downloader is it channeling my inner Ron-Co spokesman and being able to set it and forget it for full playlists. Command line isn't a big deal though, I grew up having to play games in MS-DOS. Thanks for the lead though I'll check it out tonight.