I really used to enjoy /r/datahoarders. Except for how right wing it was. Too much focused around the interests of white, male, anglo, north american, cis, het, rich, etc etc. Libertarian. Occasionally in the best way, more commonly in the worst ways.
Is there any such communities which are more expansive than archiving every Nirvana bootleg or getting the most hi quality version of The Simpsons? Or any interest in such a thing?
I like saving old things because they're old
I also want to know how to rip videos off of websites (other than just youtube) because I know those will be taken down eventually
youtube-dl supports far more than youtube. Here's the full list.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
and yt-dlp has continued development, though i don't honestly know how big the differences are
is youtube-dl different from yt-dlp?
Yes. yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl
See changes from youtube-dl
Yes. You should be using yt-dlp now. It is actively developed.
Not sure if this is common knowledge and I’m just finding out late, but sometimes you can use the web developer tools for most browsers and capture the GET requests for embedded videos to get their download links. Doesn’t seem to work with YouTube though (because of course it doesn’t)