Add support for videos saved with Internet Archive Wayback Machine

[zayuim]

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Heres some examples of URL's saved with wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20150517183426/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V46KYxFav24 https://web.archive.org/web/20071015051038/http://youtube.com:80/watch?v=JdLCEwEFCMU https://web.archive.org/web/20110531000748/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVUnpkvgHaw&gl=US&hl=en&has_verified=1

[yan12125]

Wayback machine uses a fixed pattern for YouTube videos. Ex: https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/bVUnpkvgHaw

[zayuim]

This is very useful information. You just take anything after the watch?v= and put it on the end of "https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/".

I've just done this for one of the videos and aria2 will download it!

Is it going to be possible to have this in youtube-dl in the future? IDK if it helps but the video format is VP8 and audio is Vorbis.

[bato3]

webarchive suports also own video style: https://archive.org/embed/TokiWoKakeruShoujo

[mmtsuchi]

Hello. It should be very simple since you have links to directly download medias. They are shown in "Download Options" section on the web page. Links look like "https://archive.org/download/movie_name/movie_name(*).mp4"

[ajacraig2011]

Request: https://web.archive.org/web/20131005025752/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehk1OKlMuWY

[carestad]

Has anyone made this work with youtube-dl or any other tool?

[jonpatterns]

There is a way to find a direct link to the video embedded in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine if it's using jw player. From there the video gives the option to download.

Details here:

https://bugthinking.com/how-to-save-a-video-from-jwplayer-website/

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At the moment youtube-dl just sees the url and strips it to the Youtube video link, then tries to download from Youtube. This will often fail; as a reason for looking on Wayback is when a video has been removed from Youtube.

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@ajacraig2011 The video at https://web.archive.org/web/20131005025752/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehk1OKlMuWY doesn't appear to be working on Wayback - does it play for you?

[NatoBoram]

Oh, thanks y'all for this knowledge. It allowed me to download Microsoft's anti-open source propaganda video A Few Perspectives on OpenOffice.org.

[Blakeinstein]

Is this fixed? ydl fails to fetch anything from this archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200225142705/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFK8fhTsViU&gl=US&hl=en

I even tried web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/cFK8fhTsViU

[aeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiou]

Will this bug ever be fixed? Why can't an exemption be added for the web.archive.org domain?

[JonasOlson]

@aeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiou:

Why can't an exemption be added for the web.archive.org domain?

From what? Is there some rule in effect?

[aeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiou]

From what? Is there some rule in effect?

Adding wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt to the link sometimes doesn't work and is inconvenient every time as noted above.

[Kinegitastwr]

Is this fixed? ydl fails to fetch anything from this archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20160808170440/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4A9xblvaJY

[dirkf]

Specifically, the master code redirects to the YT page where "This video contains content from Turner EST, who has blocked it on copyright grounds".

The archived page (which is the oldest capture available) looks like just the original YT page re-homed to the archive. With JS enabled, the page warns that the actual video could not be archived.

Extracting from it will only repeat what happens with the original URL (as can be confirmed by adding a URL pattern with the prefix web\.archive\.org/web/\d+/https://www\.youtube\.com to the list of YT domains in the _VALID_URL.