Search engine for unlisted youtube videos?
I spent way too long trying to find I'm a Morning Person made by Julian Smith and found out it has since been unlisted on youtube.
Only reason I finally found it was a direct link to it on another forum which appeared on search page 5 on duckduckgo.
It got me thinking; Is there any service that lists unlisted youtube videos?
Would it be possible to create?
I haven't used it before, but this apparently does it:
https://unlistedvideos.com/
That being said, it only indexes what users have submitted. So while it has some other unlisted videos from Julian Smith, as of this writing, nobody has submitted "I'm a Morning Person".
It is now. ;-)
Cheers for the site!
No problem. It looks like you're not the only frustrated user trying to find various of his old videos:
https://old.reddit.com/r/juliansmith/comments/l5k8g4/julian_smith_has_unlisted_some_of_the_videos_on/
Yeah, that sounds unreasonable. I guess I'll have to use yt-dlp more to backup videos I enjoy.
Hmm.
If it's downloaded and all the associated metadata embedded --- which
yt-dlpdoes have the ability to do, but isn't the default --- it'd be possible to index downloaded videos and create some kind of search engine for magnet links for saved YouTube videos.EDIT: Oh, though I don't know whether
yt-dlptries to create identical files on different people's systems. If it embeds a "downloaded" timestamp or something like that, there might not be a single hash that refers to all downloaded copies.There's a video from 14 years ago I wish I could find again but it was removed for ToS violations (I guess because a kid pukes? I don't know). It made me really want to start archiving stuff on there
Yeah, now that I got the storage I save a whole lot more locally. GOG offline installers is probably the largest folder on my NAS though. :)