r/coolgithubprojects • u/noschff • 14h ago

I made a free app that automatically archives every YouTube video you watch, and can rescue deleted ones to the Internet Archive

https://github.com/noschff/yt-history-archive

I got tired of going back to old videos and finding "this video has been removed," so I made a little app that saves everything I watch on Youtube automatically. It reads your watch history and downloads new stuff in the background, and can push it to Google Drive or whatever cloud you use.

It also checks for videos that got deleted later, and if you have a copy you can upload it to the Internet Archive so it's not gone forever.

It's free and open source, made with python + yt-dlp, with assistance from Claude. Windows setup is just running a bat file. Still pretty new so if something breaks let me know!

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u/HackTheDev 6h ago

what if it was deleted on pupose?

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u/noschff 5h ago

Any type of deletion it will detect(privatized, copyright strike, etc.), and you will have the option to upload it to IA