YouTube
YouTube | |
URL | http://youtube.com[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
YouTube is a video sharing website currently owned by Google. YouTube is currently the most popular video hosting website on the planet.
Archiving tools
Several free FLV downloaders and video-to-URL converters exist on the web.
AT rescue projects usually use youtube-dl.
YouTube annotations (speech bubbles and notes) are available as XML
http://www.youtube.com/api/reviews/y/read2?feat=TCS&video_id=
To transform this XML to SRT, use ann2srt
Recomended way to archive Youtube videos
First, download the video using youtube-dl:
youtube-dl --title --continue --retries 4 --write-info-json --write-description --write-thumbnail --write-annotations --all-subs --ignore-errors -f 38/138+141/138+22/138+140/138+139/264+141/264+22/264+140/264+139/137+141/137+22/137+140/137+139/37/22/135+141/135+22/135+140/135+139/best URL
Then, upload it to https://archive.org/upload/ Make sure to upload not only the video itself (.mp4 files), but also the metadata files created along with it (.info.json, .jpg, .mp4.annotations.xml and .mp4.description).
Site reconnaissance
Little is known about its database, but according to data from 2006, it was 45TB and doubling every 4 months. At this rate it would be 660 Petabytes (Oct 2014) by now. FYI, all of Google Video was about 45TB. Let's hope it stays healthy, because the Archive Team may have finally met its match.
Vital signs
Will be living off Google for a long time if nothing changes.